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Art, with its thousands of faces, often remains mysterious in terms of its value. The Kantian aes... more Art, with its thousands of faces, often remains mysterious in terms of its value. The Kantian aesthetic perceives the value of art as lying in itself and independent of any external judgement. Bourdieu's analysis, using 'the field of cultural production', however, considers that the value of art embodies the symbolic capital of producers and the relevant genres, schoolsin a word, hierarchy of the social space of cultural production. Moreover, the field of cultural production, with its relatively autonomous existence, has homologies with the field of power rather than being its own enclosed domain . If the Kantian aesthetic places art in a pure and eternal state for human perception, then Bourdieusian analysis brings art to the social conditions and structure in which art is produced and consumed.

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Art, with its thousands of faces, often remains mysterious in terms of its value. The Kantian aes... more Art, with its thousands of faces, often remains mysterious in terms of its value. The Kantian aesthetic perceives the value of art as lying in itself and independent of any external judgement. Bourdieu's analysis, using 'the field of cultural production', however, considers that the value of art embodies the symbolic capital of producers and the relevant genres, schoolsin a word, hierarchy of the social space of cultural production. Moreover, the field of cultural production, with its relatively autonomous existence, has homologies with the field of power rather than being its own enclosed domain . If the Kantian aesthetic places art in a pure and eternal state for human perception, then Bourdieusian analysis brings art to the social conditions and structure in which art is produced and consumed.

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