Democratization of Art or Accumulation of Artistic Behaviors; Case study of Iranian Contemporary Art Museum

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1 Assistant Prof, Department of Sociology, University of Tehran

2 Researcher

3 researcher

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The goal of this research is to study the policy of democratization of culture and is trying to find out whether democratization of museums leads to democratization of art or its only result is accumulation of artistic behaviors. Deploying Pierre Bourdieu’s theory who believes that “the love of art” is the result of cultural capital and utilizing surveys with the method of quantity evaluation and analyzing of information, the amount of satisfaction of audience of Tehran Contemporary Art Museum has been evaluated. According to the results, it can be stated that democratization of museum has only led to accumulation of artistic behaviors of permanent audience. General familiarity of people with common arts is very limited and in Iran art is not considered as the rough core of the culture. Making relationship with common arts, in addition to democratization of museums and well public informing, require vast attempt of education system and media to link people with artworks. This way random encounter of individuals may lead to regular visits of museums.

The goal of this research is to study the policy of democratization of culture and is trying to find out whether democratization of museums leads to democratization of art or its only result is accumulation of artistic behaviors. Deploying Pierre Bourdieu’s theory who believes that “the love of art” is the result of cultural capital and utilizing surveys with the method of quantity evaluation and analyzing of information, the amount of satisfaction of audience of Tehran Contemporary Art Museum has been evaluated. According to the results, it can be stated that democratization of museum has only led to accumulation of artistic behaviors of permanent audience.

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