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Author Bourdieu, Pierre, 1930-2002.

Title The field of cultural production : essays on art and literature / Pierre Bourdieu ; edited and introduced by Randal Johnson
Published Cambridge [England] : Polity Press, 1993

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Description viii, 322 pages ; 23 cm
Series European perspectives
European perspectives.
Contents Pierre Bourdieu on art, literature and culture -- pt. 1. The field of cultural production The field of cultural production, or, the economic world reversed -- The production of belief : contribution to an economy of symbolic goods -- The market of symbolic goods -- pt. 2. Flaubert and the French literary field Is the structure of Sentimental education an instance of social self-analysis? -- Field of power, literary field and habitus -- Principles for a sociology of cultural works -- Flaubert's point of view -- pt. 3. The pure gaze : essays on art Outline of a sociological theory of art perception -- Manet and the institutionalization of anomie -- The historical genesis of a pure aesthetic
Summary The Field of Cultural Production brings together Bourdieu's most important writings on art, literature, and aesthetics. Bourdieu develops a highly original approach to the study of literary and artistic works, addressing many of the key issues that have preoccupied literary, art, and cultural criticism in the late twentieth century: aesthetic value and judgement, the social contexts of cultural practice, the role of intellectuals and artists, and the structures of literary and artistic authority. Bourdieu elaborates a theory of the cultural field which situates artistic works within the social conditions of their production, circulation, and consumption. He examines the individuals and institutions involved in making cultural products what they are: the writers, artists, publishers, critics, dealers, galleries and academies. He analyses the structure of the cultural field itself as well as its position within the broader social structures of power. The essays in this volume deal with such diverse topics as Flaubert's point of view, Manet's aesthetic revolution, the historical creation of the pure gaze, and the relationship between art and power. The Field of Cultural Production will be of interest to students and scholars from a wide range of disciplines: sociology and social theory, literature, art, and cultural studies
Analysis Culture
Notes Includes index
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Aesthetics, French.
Art and literature.
Arts and society -- France.
Arts and society.
Arts audiences -- France.
Arts -- Economic aspects -- France.
Author Johnson, Randal, 1948-
LC no. 92033843
ISBN 0745609864
0745609872 (paperback)