Музеят за изкуство: културни, социални и икономически ценности
The Art Museum: Cultural, Social and Economic Values

Summary/Abstract: The study aims to identify political constructs and power functions of the art museum institution through a reconstruction of the receptions of the famous study „The Love of Art: European Art Museums and their Public” by P. Bourdieu and A. Darbel. The basis for constructing the analysis is the examination of transformations in the interpretations of the concept of cultural capital, formulated in this study. In the field of cultural policy, it is updated as a tool for criticizing inequalities. In the critical reflections of Bourdieu’s political aesthetics – as an approach for analyzing the dynamics of power relations related to the fields of cultural production. Based on the comparison between different approaches to understanding Bourdieu’s conceptual “heritage”, the contemporary role of the art museum as a multifunctional cultural and political project for an institution that transforms cultural, social and economic values is deduced. And as a power construct, as a key mediator that maintains the dynamics between power construction and autonomy in the field of art.

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