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Undergraduate Sociology Dissertation: Proposal SampleThe elevation of art through commerce: An analysis of Charles Saatchi's approach to the machinery of art production using Pierre Bourdieu's theories of distinction.

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This dissertation will endeavour to illustrate how Charles Saatchi has understood the inner workings of the art world of production, distribution and criticism and how he has launched an elevated form of mainstream art harnessing sensationalism and the media together with savvy marketing to become a founder, promoter and gate-keeper of art movements within the contemporary British and American art scenes. The Saatchi phenomena will be viewed through the lens of Pierre Bourdieu's theories on art, using predominately the ideas found in The Rules of Art: Genesis and Structure of the Literary Field (1996). Here, Bourdieu observes that art is created to enforce a code of distinction between the classes; that is, certain classes are trained to access more difficult (or less popular) forms of art that is more expensive, which becomes less accessible to people from lower socio-economic classes because they have not had the academic education or the financial resources to access this type of aesthetic expression. As such, art is created by the upper echelons of society in an effort to distinguish themselves noticeably from other classes.[…]

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