Art Rules - Pierre Bourdieu and the Visual Arts

Zusatztext A lively and forceful book! which will provide a good introduction to Bourdieu for sociology and art history students. Informationen zum Autor Michael Grenfell is Professor in the Faculty of Law, Arts and Social Sciences, University of Southampton. Cheryl Hardy is Principal Lecturer at the University of Winchester. The first complete study of Bourdieu's contribution to art. Zusammenfassung Pierre Bourdieu is now recognized as one of the key contemporary critics of culture and the visual arts. Art Rules analyses Bourdieu's work on the visual arts to provide the first overview of his theory of culture and aesthetics.Bourdieu's engagement with both postmodernism and the 'problem of aesthetics' provides a new way of analysing the visual arts. His interest is in how artistic fields function and the implications their processes have for art and artistic practice.Art Rules applies Bourdieu's theory of practice to the three fields of museums, photography and painting. These practical examples are used as a springboard to address visual arts in the 21st Century and to establish Bourdieu's 'Rules of Art'. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. IntroductionPART I: THEORY2. Bourdieu: A Brief History of Theory3. Aesthetics and the Visual ArtsPART II: PRACTICE4. Museums5. Painting6. PhotographyPART III: VISUAL ARTS IN THE 21ST CENTURY7. Back to the Future8. Conclusion

Product details

• Authors: Michael Grenfell, Michael Hardy Grenfell, Grenfell Michael, Cheryl Hardy, Hardy Cheryl
• Publisher: Berg Publishers Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.2007
• EAN: 9781845202347
• ISBN: 978-1-84520-234-7
• No. of pages: 256
• Dimensions: 156 mm x 234 mm x 14 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > General, dictionaries; Cultural Studies, Theory of art, ART / Criticism & Theory, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social