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Sarah L. Thornton is a writer, ethnographer and sociologist of culture. Thornton has authored three books and many articles about art, artists, the art market, the history of music technology, dance clubs, raves, cultural hierarchies, subcultures and ethnographic research methods.

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Many outsiders see the art world as elitist and it is, except it is also oddly down-to-earth and embracing of oddballs who don't fit in well anywhere else.

Art, Embracing, Fit, Oddly, Outsiders, World

(. . . ) contemporary art has become a kind of alternative religion for atheists. (. . . ) For many art world insiders and art aficionados of other kinds, concept-driven art is a kind of existencial channel through which they bring meaning to their lives. It demands leaps of faith, but it rewards the believer with a sense of consequence. Moreover, just as churches and other ritualistic meeting places serve a social function, so art events generate a sense of community around shared interests

Art, Atheist, Atheists, Community, Interests, Meaning

The term bohemian has a bad reputation because it's allied to myriad clichés, but Parisians originally adopted the term, associated with nomadic Gypsies, to describe artists and writers who stayed up all night and ignored the pressures of the industrial world.

Artist, Clichés, Night, Parisians, Term, World

Despite its self-regard, and much like a society of devout followers, the art world relies on consensus as heavily as it depends on individual analysis or critical thinking. Althought the art world reveres the unconventional, it is rife with conformity. Artists make works that "looks like art" and behave in ways that enhance stereotypes. (. . . ) Originality is not always rewarded, but some people take real risks and innovate, which gives a raison d'être to the rest

Art, Make, Real, Rest, Reveres, Thinking

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