Art Rules: Pierre Bourdieu and the Visual Arts

by Michael Grenfell, Cheryl Hardy, Michael James Grenfell

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1845202333
• ISBN13: 9781845202330
• Release Date: March 2007
• Publisher: Berg Publishers
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.09 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"