The Field of Cultural Production: Essays on Art and Literature - Softcover

Pierre Bourdieu

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0745609872 ISBN 13: 9780745609874

Publisher: Polity Press, 1993

Synopsis

Shipped from UK, please allow 10 to 21 business days for arrival. Pierre Bourdieu; edited and introduced by Randal Johnson. Light edge wear and there are several creases on the spine.There are some pencil annotations in the text. The page block is slightly grubby.Binding tight and square, contents clean and unmarked.

About this title

Book Description:

Elaborating on a theory of the cultural field, this book situates artistic works within the social conditions of their production, circulation, and consumption.

From the Back Cover:

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Polity Press
• Publication date: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0745609872
• ISBN 13: 9780745609874
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 336