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When two fields collide: war and the British Avant-gardes

When two fields collide: war and the British Avant-gardes
When two fields collide: war and the British Avant-gardes
The dimensions of time of an artistic field are at the centre of both this paper and Bourdieu’s theorising about cultural avant-gardes and their role in the ever changing ‘fashions’ of cultural production. In ‘The Rules of Art’, Bourdieu writes about the temporality of the field of artistic production; how an avant-garde comes into being; how it matures and it is ‘consecrated’ and eventually becomes the rearguard of artistic production (Bourdieu 1996: 159). His avant-gardes are not single homogeneous groups, but ‘generations’ of artists, associated with one another by both their biological ages and by the artistic age of their practice in relation to the present artistic field. Bourdieu describes how one generation is pushed into the artistic past by the following artistic generation, defining the gap between two successive modes of production as both stylistic and chronological (Bourdieu 1996:159). Bourdieu developed these ideas in the context of literary and artistic production in late nineteenth century France; in particular, for the French novelist, Flaubert. This paper uses the same theoretical perspective to investigate a particular time – 1940’s and 50’s; particular people – fifty artists associated with St Ives including Ben Nicholson, Barbara Hepworth, Wilhelmina Barns-Graham, Peter Lanyon and Patrick Heron - and a particular place – St Ives in Cornwall.
art, painting, aesthetics, avant-garde, bourdieu, st ives, british art
Grenfell, M.J.
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Hardy, Cheryl
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Grenfell, M.J.
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Hardy, Cheryl
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Grenfell, M.J. and Hardy, Cheryl (2006) When two fields collide: war and the British Avant-gardes. International Conference on the Arts in Society, Edinburgh, Scotland. 15 - 18 Aug 2006. 12 pp .

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Abstract

The dimensions of time of an artistic field are at the centre of both this paper and Bourdieu’s theorising about cultural avant-gardes and their role in the ever changing ‘fashions’ of cultural production. In ‘The Rules of Art’, Bourdieu writes about the temporality of the field of artistic production; how an avant-garde comes into being; how it matures and it is ‘consecrated’ and eventually becomes the rearguard of artistic production (Bourdieu 1996: 159). His avant-gardes are not single homogeneous groups, but ‘generations’ of artists, associated with one another by both their biological ages and by the artistic age of their practice in relation to the present artistic field. Bourdieu describes how one generation is pushed into the artistic past by the following artistic generation, defining the gap between two successive modes of production as both stylistic and chronological (Bourdieu 1996:159). Bourdieu developed these ideas in the context of literary and artistic production in late nineteenth century France; in particular, for the French novelist, Flaubert. This paper uses the same theoretical perspective to investigate a particular time – 1940’s and 50’s; particular people – fifty artists associated with St Ives including Ben Nicholson, Barbara Hepworth, Wilhelmina Barns-Graham, Peter Lanyon and Patrick Heron - and a particular place – St Ives in Cornwall.

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Published date: 2006
Additional Information: Conference held in conjunction with the Edinburgh International Arts Festivals
Venue - Dates: International Conference on the Arts in Society, Edinburgh, Scotland, 2006-08-15 - 2006-08-18
Keywords: art, painting, aesthetics, avant-garde, bourdieu, st ives, british art

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Local EPrints ID: 41935
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/41935
PURE UUID: 9bda6154-3104-4a5a-b92d-2bad03351350
ORCID for M.J. Grenfell: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-2038-0317

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Date deposited: 17 Oct 2006
Last modified: 09 Nov 2022 02:33

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Author: M.J. Grenfell ORCID iD
Author: Cheryl Hardy

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