Pierre Bourdieu: The Field of Cultural Production: Essays on Art and Literature (1993)
Filed under book | Tags: · aesthetics, art, cultural criticism, cultural production, culture, literature, production
“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.”
Edited by Randal Johnson
Publisher Columbia University Press, 1993
ISBN 0231082878, 9780231082877
viii+322 pages
Reviews: Tom Huhn (Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, 1996), Sigrid R⊘yseng (International Journal of Cultural Policy, 2010).
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Comments (2)Bernhard Hummer, Therese Kaufmann, Raimund Minichbauer, Gerald Raunig (ed.): Republicart practices. documentation evaluation (2005)
Filed under report | Tags: · activism, cultural production, participation
A transnational multilingual platform and research project exploring and developing progressive practices in public art. The joint venture of artists, theoreticians and art institutions all over Europe has brought together (2002-2005) different styles of artistic production, contemporary art and political theory and cultural politics.
Republicart intensifies the political discourse of participatory, interventionist and activist art practices through 12 art projects and 12 discursive events. It has a multilingual web journal, a database, a mailing list, a pilot study on alternative histories of art, a book series and critiques.
Publisher: Wien – Linz, eipcp Europen Institut for Progressive Cultural Politicies 2005
ISBN-10: 3950176233
ISBN-13: 9783950176230
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Comment (0)Rosalind Gill: Technobohemians or the new Cybertariat? New media work in Amsterdam a decade after the web (2007)
Filed under report | Tags: · creative industries, cultural production, culture industry, precariat
Accounts of new media working conditions draw heavily on two polarised stereotypes, veering from techno-utopianism on the one hand, to a vision of webworkers as the new ‘precariat’, victims of neo-liberal economic policies on the other. Heralded from both perspectives as representing the brave new world of work, what is striking is the absence of research on new media workers’ own experiences, particularly in a European context. This INC commissioned research goes beyond contemporary myths to explore how people working in the field experience the pleasures, pressures and challenges of working on the web. Illustrated throughout with quotations from interviews, it examines the different career paths emerging for content-producers in web-based industries, questions the relevance of existing education and training, and highlights the different ways in which people manage and negotiate freelancing, job insecurity, and keeping up to date in a fast-moving field where both software and expectations change rapidly.
The research is based on 35 interviews carried out in Amsterdam in 2005, and contextually draws upon a further 60 interviews with web designers in London and Brighton. The interviews were conducted by Danielle van Diemen and Rosalind Gill.
Interviews: Rosalind Gill and Danielle van Diemen. Copy editing: Ned Rossiter. Design: Léon&Loes, Rotterdam. Network Notebooks editors: Geert Lovink and Sabine Niederer. Printing: Cito Repro, Amsterdam. Publisher: Institute of Network Cultures, Amsterdam
Network Notebooks 01, Institute of Network Cultures, Amsterdam, 2007. ISBN: 978-90-78146-02-5.
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