Front cover image for The field of cultural production : essays on art and literature

The field of cultural production : essays on art and literature

Elaborating on a theory of the cultural field, this book situates artistic works within the social conditions of their production, circulation, and consumption.
Print Book, English, 1993
Polity Press in association with Blackwell, Cambridge, 1993
viii, 322 pages ; 24 cm
9780745609867, 9780231082860, 9780231082877, 0745609864, 023108286X, 0231082878
625287180
Preface Editor's Introduction: Pierre Bourdieu on Art, Literature and Culture Part I. The Field of Cultural Production 1. The Field of Cultural Production, or: The Economic World Reversed 2. The Production of Belief: Contribution to an Economy of Symbolic Goods 3. The Market of Symbolic Goods Part II. Flaubert and the French Literary Field 4. Is the Structure of Sentimental Education an Instance of Social Self-analysis? 5. Field of Power, Literary Field and Habitus 6. Principles for a Sociology of Cultural Works 7. Flaubert's Point of View Part III. The Pure Gaze: Essays on Art 8. Outline of a Sociological Theory of Art Perception 9. Manet and the Institutionalization of Anomie 10. The Historical Genesis of a Pure Aesthetic Notes Selected Bibliography Index