This Is Not Just a Painting

ISBN-13: 9781509528691 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 450 str.

Bernard Lahire; Bernard Lahire

Recenzje

"Few books can truly claim to be a tour de force. This is not Just a Painting by Bernard Lahire is truly one of those rare works. Beginning with the account of a purchase of a controversial work by Nicolas Poussin by the Musee des Beaux-Arts in Lyon, Lahire develops a creative and innovative approach to sociological theorizing, weaving together culture, politics, and social psychology as the basis for understanding how societies operate. The book is operatic in the breadth. Building on the intersection of magic, dominance, and the aesthetic, Lahire has presented a set of ideas that demands close attention and intense dialogue. Paintings are never just paintings; they are tools through which society conceptualizes itself." Gary Alan Fine, James E. Johnson Professor of Sociology, Northwestern University; author Talking Art: The Practice of Culture and the Culture of Practice in MFA Education. "Lahire's wide-ranging and profoundly scholarly book digs deeply into the meanings sociology can find in and attribute to works of art. He puts his knowledge of art history and aesthetic theory to good use in the exploration and deepening of sociological investigations, nowhere better than in his discussion of the work of Poussin." Howard Becker, author of Art Worlds "Gloriously eccentric... thought-provoking and original" Catholic Herald

O autorze

Bernard Lahire is Professor of Sociology at the École Normale Superieure de Lyon. He has published over twenty books, including The Plural Actor (Polity 2010).