Comparing Arts and Popular Culture Experiences: Applying a Common Methodological Framework

Foreman-Wernet, Lois; Dervin, Brenda

doi:10.3200/jaml.35.3.169-188

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“…The study reported here is part of a larger project that focuses on everyday encounters with works of art (Foreman‐Wernet and Dervin , , , , in press; Foreman‐Wernet et al. ).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…The study reported here is part of a larger project that focuses on everyday encounters with works of art (Foreman-Wernet and Dervin 2005Dervin , 2006Dervin , 2011Dervin , 2013Foreman-Wernet et al 2014). This larger, ongoing project has included thousands of cultural experiencesacross the popular to elite spectrum and including visual and performing artsby hundreds of informants.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Everyday Encounters with Art: Comparing Expert and Novice Experiences

Foreman-Wernet¹,

Dervin²

2016

Curator The Museum Journal

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The study reported here looked at how two groups of people – one with art expertise and one without – made sense of their encounters with an exhibition of a single artist, the late Paul‐Henri Bourguignon. The study builds on previous research using Dervin's Sense‐Making Methodology to study how people interpret their arts experiences within the contexts of their everyday lives. Informants were asked to rank‐order their selections among the pieces on display according to which had the most impact for them (however they defined impact). Each informant then did a structured qualitative interview focusing on the work he or she chose as most impactful. The researchers looked at thematic elements and other patterns of similarity and difference that arose in the interviews and offer thoughts on how the results of this study may provide insight to those who work in museums.

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“…The study reported here is part of a larger project that focuses on everyday encounters with works of art (Foreman‐Wernet and Dervin , , , , in press; Foreman‐Wernet et al. ).…”

Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Everyday Encounters with Art: Comparing Expert and Novice Experiences

Foreman-Wernet¹,

Dervin²

2016

Curator The Museum Journal

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“…Prior publications drawn from this database have focused on extracting patterns across informants and have been reported in Foreman-Wernet and Dervin (2005Dervin ( , 2006. For this article, we have selected four informants to look at more closely through a case study approach.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…The most recent evolution of this research attention zeroes in on capturing highly personalized understandings of arts experiences. Researchers advocating this approach argue that the individual and his or her personal arts experience should be at the heart of cultural policies and support (Cheney 2010;ForemanWernet andDervin 2005, 2006). This emergent body of research, which attempts to capture a deep understanding of how audiences experience the arts, is distinctive from prior work in two ways.…”

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confidence: 95%

“…Rather, these benefits are assumed, and studies focus instead on identifying who is predisposed to and actually paying attention. Yet, as social conditions have evolved, it has become increasingly clear that this traditional demographics-based approach to audience research that has dominated arts and cultural practice and policy is inadequate to fully penetrate the complex relationships between the arts and participants/audiences, particularly in the context of the explosion of alternative modes of access and mediasaturation that increasingly mark everyday life (Foreman-Wernet and Dervin 2010).…”

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Cultural Experience in Context: Sense-Making the Arts

Foreman-Wernet

Dervin

2011

The Journal of Arts Management, Law, and Society

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Recent research on arts and cultural audiences has attempted to go beyond the traditional social science surveys that assess attitudes or attendance to capture an understanding of how audiences actually experience the arts and what benefits or impacts those experiences provide. The study reported here contributes to this growing body of research by presenting in-depth case studies of four individuals and their chosen cultural experiences at various times through their lives. The authors used Dervin's Sense-Making Methodology to guide the informants through highly structured but open-ended interviews designed to prompt self-reflection and elaboration of what each experience meant to them. Informants were selected from a larger database because of the richness of their interviews and the insight these interviews offer to the understanding of people's engagements with culture. By considering multiple cultural experiences for each informant, it was possible to gain a clearer sense of the context in which these experiences took place and how informants were impacted personally. In addition, the case studies showed how informants' respective struggles with personal and identity issues moved with them across their cultural experiences.

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In Defense of Mass-Produced Original Paintings

Lindauer

2020

Mass-Produced Original Paintings, the Psychology of Art, and an Everyday Aesthetics

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Comparing Arts and Popular Culture Experiences: Applying a Common Methodological Framework

Cited by 9 publications

References 19 publications

Everyday Encounters with Art: Comparing Expert and Novice Experiences

Everyday Encounters with Art: Comparing Expert and Novice Experiences

Cultural Experience in Context: Sense-Making the Arts

In Defense of Mass-Produced Original Paintings

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