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ObPierreBourdieu: > This structure which is present in every artistic genre, and has been for a long time, today tends to work as a mental structure, organizin
by alricb 11y ago
ObPierreBourdieu:
> This structure which is present in every artistic genre, and has been for a long time, today tends to work as a mental structure, organizing the production and perception of products: the opposition between art and money (the "commercial") is the generating principle of most of the judgments which, in matters of theatre, cinema, painting, literature, claim to establish the frontier between what is art and what is not, between "bourgeois" art and "intellectual" art, between "traditional" art and "avant-garde" art.
(from Pierre Bourdieu, Les règles de l'art, free translation)
- abecedarius 11y agoI found that hard to follow -- was that your intent? (What does 'this structure' refer to? What does it have to do with 'the opposition'? Are they the same?)
- alricb 11y agoI didn't write it, Pierre Bourdieu did (in French, but my translation follows the sentence fairly closely), and he has stated that he writes like that so that he's hard to quote. In fact, to really understand the sentence, you'd need to read the one before it, and probably the one before that, and they're all about as complicated and hard to understand; you find yourself having to turn to the previous page just to remember what the subject of the sentence was.