Manet
Subtitle: a symbolic revolution : lectures at the Coll̀ège de France (1998-2000) followed by an unfinished manuscript by Pierre and Marie-Claire Bourdieu
By: Pierre Bourdieu ; edition established by Pascale Casanova [and 4 others] ; 'Opus Infinitum', by Christophe Charle ; 'Self-Portrait as a Free Artist' by, by Pascale Casanova ; translated by Peter Collier and Margaret Rigaud-Drayton
Contributors: Bordieu, Marie-Claire, author; Casanova, Pascale, editor, contributor; Charle, Christophe, 1951- contributor; Collier, Peter, 1942- translator; Rigaud-Drayton, Margaret, translator
Edition: English edition.
Publisher: Polity Press
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 586
ISBN-13: 9781509500093
Subjects: Art and society; Criticism and interpretation
Work titles: Manet
Description: 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 E douard 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 Colle ge 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 This second volume of Bourdieu's previously unpublished lectures provides his most sustained contribution to the sociology of art and the analysis of cultural fields.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.
Notes: Translation of: Manet, une révolution symbolique.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Opus infinitum -- genesis and structure of a work without end  -- by Christophe Charle; title: Manet the heresiarch, genesis of the artistic and critical fields  -- unfinished manuscript by Pierre and Marie-Claire Bourdieu; title: Self-portrait as a free artist: or 'I don't know why I am telling you that' -- by Pascale Casanova.