Screen LibraryManet : a symbolic revolution, Lectures at the Collè̀ge de France (1998-2000) followed by an unfinished manuscript by Pierre and Marie-Claire Bourdieu /
What is a 'symbolic revolution'? What happens when a symbolic revolutions occurs, how can it succeed and prevail and why is it so difficult to understand? Using the exemplary case of Édouard Manet, Pierre Bourdieu began to ponder these questions as early as the 1980s, before making it the...
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Polity Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Cambridge, UK : |
| Publication Dates: | [2017] |
| Literature type: | Book |
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English French |
| Edition: | English edition. |
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What is a 'symbolic revolution'? What happens when a symbolic revolutions occurs, how can it succeed and prevail and why is it so difficult to understand? Using the exemplary case of Édouard Manet, Pierre Bourdieu began to ponder these questions as early as the 1980s, before making it the focus of his lectures in his last years at the Collége de France. This second volume of Bourdieu's previously unpublished lectures provides his most sustained contribution to the sociology of art and the analysis of cultural fields. It is also a major contribution to our understanding of impressionism and the works of Manet. Bourdieu treats the paintings of Manet as so many challenges to the conservative academicism of the pompier painters, the populism of the Realists, the commercial eclecticism of genre painting, and even the 'Impressionists', showing that such a revolution is inseparable from the conditions that allow fields of cultural production to emerge. At a time when the Academy was in crisis and when the increase in the number of painters challenged the role of the state in defining artistic value, the break that Manet inaugurated revolutionised the aesthetic order. The new vision of the world that emerged from this upheaval still shapes our categories of perception and judgement today - the very categories that we use everday to understand the representations of the world and the world itself. This major work by one of the greatest sociologists of the last 50 years will be of great interest to students and scholars in sociology, art history and the social sciences and humanities generally. It will also appeal to a wide readership interested in art, in impressionism and in the works of Manet. |
| Item Description: | Originally published in French as Manet. Une révolution symbolique. Copyright Éditions Raisons d'Agir/Éditions du Seuil, 2013. |
| Carrier Form: | xiii, 586 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| ISBN: |
9781509500093 150950009X |
| Index Number: | ND553 |
| CLC: | J205(565) |
| Call Number: | J205(565)/B769 |
| Contents: |
Lecture of 6 January 1999 -- Lecture of 13 January 1999 -- Lecture of 20 January 1999 -- 27 January 1999 -- Lecture of 3 February 1999 -- Lecture of 10 February 1999 -- Lecture of 17 February 1999 -- Lecture of 24 February 1999 -- Lecture of 4 March 1999 -- Lecture of 12 January 2000 -- Lecture of 19 January 2000 -- Lecture of 26 January 2000 -- Lecture of 2 February 2000 -- Lecture of 9 February 2000 -- Lecture of 16 February 2000 -- Lecture of 23 February 2000 -- Lecture of 1 March 2000 -- Lecture of 8 March 2000 -- Opus infinitum: Genesis and structure of a work without end / Manet the Heresiarch, Genesis of the artistic and critical fields / Introduction -- Pompier Art as an academic universal -- The crisis in the academic insitution -- Break and continuity -- The field of criticism and the artistic field -- 'The Heresiarch and Co.' -- Manet's aesthetics -- Appendix -- Self-portrait as a free artist: or 'I don't know why I am telling you that' / |