The Field of Cultural Production brings together Bourdieu'smost important writings on art, literature and aesthetics. Bourdieudevelops a highly original approach to the study of literary andartistic works, addressing many of the key issues that havepreoccupied literary, art and cultural criticism in the latetwentieth century: aesthetic value and judgement, the socialcontexts of cultural practice, the role of intellectuals andartists, and the structures of literary and artistic authority. Bourdieu elaborates a theory of the cultural field whichsituates artistic works within the social conditions of theirproduction, circulation and consumption. He examines theindividuals in institutions involved in making products: not onlythe writers and artists, but also the publishers, critics, dealers,galleries and academies. He analyses the structure of the culturalfield itself, as well as its position within the broader socialstructures of power. The essays gathered together in this volume examine a variety ofsubstantive topics, including Flaubert's point of view, Manet'saesthetic revolution, the historical creation of the pure gaze, andthe relationship between art and power. The Field of CulturalProduction will be of interest to students and scholars from awide range of disciplines: sociology and social theory, literature,art and cultural studies.