CONTENTS
Illustration Credits ix
Series Editor's Preface xi
1. Introduction
Bourdicu for architects 1
Situating Pierre Bourdieu 3
2 The Social Construction of Space 10
Bourdieu in Algeria 11
Bourdieu on Algeria - structural anthropology and beyond 20
3.The Anatomy of Taste 30
Early studies of French culture 31
Visiting museums 33
A theory of art perception 35
Photography and aesthetic perception 39
Actes de la recherche en sciences sociales 42
'The Market of Symbolic Goods' 42
'The Anatomy of Taste' 43
Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste 51
After Distinction 53
Buying houses - 'the taste of fantasy' 54
Postface 56
4 Towards a Theory of Cultural Practice 57
Photographic practice 59
Parallel socio-historical studies 62
Genesis of the field of cultural production 62
Artists and their audience 64
Field mechanisms 66
The conscious and the unconscious 68
Medieval scholasticism, Gothic architecture and the creative habitus 68
Towards a theory of cultural practice 73
Relations between the field of power and the field of cultural production 75
The relation between habitus and field 78
5 Fields of Cultural Production 80
The field of fashion 81
Fashion houses 82
Fashion designers 84 ;
The field of housing production 86
The field of art and literature 91
6 Cultural Practice, Reflexivity and Political Action 101
Further Reading 108
Bibliography 110
Index 122