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Pierre Bourdieu - Distinction: Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste
Pierre Bourdieu, Distinction: Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste, Harvard UP, 1984.
My impression of Bourdieu’s Distinction is that his radical social theory of class differentiation does not leave any room for subjective position, focusing on the deepest objectification of the “nature of the game.” Thus for him, cultural capital, which was assumed to be derived… »
Guy Debord - The Society of the Spectacle
Guy Debord’s The Society of the Spectacle
It is not so usual to meet an author who engages himself in a single theme explaining everything about it even by focusing on its negative aspects. Among others, there is Nietzsche who spent his whole life in criticizing dominant culture of his era. In a sense, Debord’s fragmented… »
Jeff Wall
Jeff Wall, Jeff Wall: Selected Essays and Interviews, NY: The Museum of Modern Art, 2007.
Jeff Wall and His (Critique of Contemporary) Photography as Art
The fact that an artist is discussing with other art critics about his own works – and about the art itself – shows how contemporary art is conceptual or intellectual, though indeed… »
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