Synopses & Reviews
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 analyzing 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.
Synopsis
Art Rules analyses Bourdieu's work on the visual arts to provide the first overview of his theory of culture and aesthetics.
About the Author
Michael Grenfell is a Reader in the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Southampton. Cheryl Hardy is an independent scholar.
Table of Contents
Introduction Section I: Theory * Bordieu: A Brief History of Theory * Aesthetics and the Visual Arts Section II: Practice * Museums * Photography * Painting Section III: Visual Arts in the 21st Century * Back to the Future * Conclusion