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Contestation in aesthetic fields: Legitimation and legitimacy struggles in outsider art
Poetics ( IF 1.857 ) Pub Date : 2020-10-02 , DOI: 10.1016/j.poetic.2020.101485
Victoria D. Alexander , Anne E. Bowler

Legitimation is often theorized as a form of consensus and implicitly treated as an end-state that obtains after the unfolding of a process. Conflict and disagreement are recognized as part of legitimation processes; however, scholarship emphasizes consensus-building over contestation. Moreover, as legitimacy processes are always ongoing and never final, such contestation can persist even in legitimated fields. We bring together Baumann's (2007) general theory of artistic legitimation and field theories (Bourdieu, 1993; Fligstein & McAdam, 2012) in order to develop an approach to artistic legitimacy that accounts for conflict and contestation as much as consensus in legitimacy processes. We use a historical case study to build theory on legitimacy struggles in aesthetic fields. Specifically, we examine the legitimation of Outsider art, an aesthetic field defined as work by artists who produce outside established art worlds and who come from disadvantaged social worlds. Artist William Edmondson serves as an exemplar to ground our discussion of the Outsider field as we focus on resources, opportunity spaces, and legitimating discourses (Baumann, 2007) over time, to produce a multilevel and multifaceted approach to legitimation in aesthetic fields. In this way, our approach calls attention to ongoing legitimacy struggles in legitimated fields. We hypothesize that legitimacy struggles are more common in fields where judgement criteria are ambiguous, multiple players have a stake, and/or where resources are changing.



中文翻译:

美学领域的竞赛:局外人艺术的合法性和合法性斗争

合法化经常被理论化为一种共识形式,并被隐含地视为在过程展开后获得的最终状态。冲突和分歧被认为是合法化过程的一部分;但是,奖学金强调在竞赛中建立共识。此外,由于合法性过程始终在进行,并且永远不会最终完成,因此即使在合法领域,这种竞争也可能持续存在。我们将鲍曼(2007)的艺术合法性通用理论和现场理论(Bourdieu,1993; Fligstein&McAdam,2012)结合在一起,以开发一种处理艺术合法性的方法,该方法在合法性过程中既要解决冲突又要争夺共识。我们使用历史案例研究来建立关于美学领域中合法性斗争的理论。具体来说,我们研究局外人艺术的合法性,一个审美领域,指的是艺术家创作的作品,这些作品产生了既有的艺术世界,又来自弱势社会世界。艺术家威廉·埃德蒙森(William Edmondson)成为范例,奠定了我们对局外人领域的讨论的基础,因为随着时间的推移,我们将重点放在资源,机会空间和合法化话语上(Baumann,2007年),以产生一种多层次,多层面的美学领域合法化方法。这样,我们的方法就引起了人们对合法领域中正在进行的合法性斗争的关注。我们假设合法性斗争在判断标准含糊不清,多个参与者举足轻重和/或资源正在变化的领域中更为普遍。艺术家威廉·埃德蒙森(William Edmondson)成为范例,奠定了我们对局外人领域的讨论的基础,因为随着时间的推移,我们将重点放在资源,机会空间和合法化话语上(Baumann,2007年),以产生一种多层次,多层面的美学领域合法化方法。这样,我们的方法就引起了人们对合法领域中正在进行的合法性斗争的关注。我们假设合法性斗争在判断标准含糊不清,多个参与者举足轻重和/或资源不断变化的领域中更为普遍。艺术家威廉·埃德蒙森(William Edmondson)成为范例,奠定了我们对局外人领域的讨论的基础,因为随着时间的推移,我们将重点放在资源,机会空间和合法化话语上(Baumann,2007年),以产生一种多层次,多层面的美学领域合法化方法。这样,我们的方法就引起了人们对合法领域中正在进行的合法性斗争的关注。我们假设合法性斗争在判断标准含糊不清,多个参与者举足轻重和/或资源正在变化的领域中更为普遍。我们的方法呼吁关注合法领域中正在进行的合法性斗争。我们假设合法性斗争在判断标准含糊不清,多个参与者举足轻重和/或资源正在变化的领域中更为普遍。我们的方法呼吁关注合法领域中正在进行的合法性斗争。我们假设合法性斗争在判断标准含糊不清,多个参与者举足轻重和/或资源正在变化的领域中更为普遍。

更新日期:2020-10-02
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