“Sociologists of art and culture, and like-minded persons of various stripes, should read this book to see that there is not a great deal to be frightened of in Rancière’s criticisms, actual or potential, in what they do. His now famous account of the three historical stages of art can be seen to be a relabelling in his own terminology of what are really some very obvious points about the development of art over the last few centuries, points that anyone who knows about art history would know anyway.”
Rancière’s Counter-Sociology: Politics, History, Education
Review by David Inglis, Cultural Sociology (academic journal). Read the full review