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Undergraduate Sociology: Literature Review Sample The 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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The Rules of Art was published in French in 1992, and translated into English in 1996. However, the ideas that appear in this book were already being advanced in other academic work such as Distinction: a Social Critique of the Judgment of Taste (1984), The Love of Art: European Art Museums and Their Public (1991) and Language and Symbolic Power (1991). The Rules of Art actually tracks the literary field in France during the nineteenth century and uses the success of Gustave Flaubert's Sentimental Education (1869) to follow the emergence of an autonomous (from the market) literary field and understand why Flaubert and his literary text have been sacralised throughout the proceeding decades by literary scholars. Throughout The Rules of Art, Bourdieu uses a unique methodology to analyse this text. However, although innovative, this is not relevant to this particular dissertation. What is relevant is Bourdieu's discussion of Manet and Duchamp. Bourdieu argues that Manet and Duchamp became successful artists because they managed to separate from its present day institution of the French Académie of art, while separating from the popular demands of the emerging bourgeoisie - thus, they […]

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