Monday, June 8, 2009

My favorite subject

My favorite subject this semester is the elective about sociology of art.  This subject studies the impact that the society has in the art field, and how the new techniques of production allow expanding this field.

I like it because we can see how the art changes with the period and how the period it’s reflect in the piece of art. This vision allows me to watch the importance that art has in the people’s life.

In class we study meanly the work of Walter Benjamin “The art in the time of technique reproduction”  where the author write about how the possibility of  reproduction of art`s pieces had changing the position of art in the life of  people. The art has to stop being an object of  the religion and it becomes in a mercancy object, because now we have the possibility of buy this works or download from the web.

And also we study the work of Bordieu  who talk about the art field like a independent field of study, that has its own rules and its own specialist. 

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