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This is Not Just a Painting

This is Not Just a Painting

Bernard Lahire

Polity Press
2019
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In 2008, the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon acquired a painting called The Flight into Egypt which was attributed to the French artist Nicolas Poussin. Thought to have been painted in 1657, the painting had gone missing for more than three centuries. Several versions were rediscovered in the 1980s and one was passed from hand to hand, from a family who had no idea of its value to gallery owners and eventually to the museum. A painting that had been sold as a decorative object in 1986 for around 12,000 euros was acquired two decades later by the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon for 17 million euros. What does this remarkable story tell us about the nature of art and the way that it is valued? How is it that what seemed to be just an ordinary canvas could be transformed into a masterpiece, that a decorative object could become a national treasure? This is a story permeated by social magic the social alchemy that transforms lead into gold, the ordinary into the extraordinary, the profane into the sacred. Focusing on this extraordinary case, Bernard Lahire lays bare the beliefs and social processes that underpin the creation of a masterpiece. Like a detective piecing together the clues in an unsolved mystery he carefully reconstructs the steps that led from the same material object being treated as a copy of insignificant value to being endowed with the status of a highly-prized painting commanding a record-breaking price. He thereby shows that a painting is never just a painting, and is always more than a piece of stretched canvass to which brush strokes of paint have been applied: this object, and the value we attach to it, is also the product of a complex array of social processes – with its distinctive institutions and experts – that lies behind it. And through the history of this painting, Lahire uncovers some of the fundamental structures of our social world. For the social magic that can transform a painting from a simple copy into a masterpiece is similar to the social magic that is present throughout our societies, in economics and politics as much as art and religion, a magic that results from the spell cast by power on those who tacitly recognize its authority. By following the trail of a single work of art, Lahire interrogates the foundations on which our perceptions of value and our belief in institutions rest and exposes the forms of domination which lie hidden behind our admiration of works of art.
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The Trials and Tribulations of a "Professional Malcontent": Memoirs 1955-2016

The Trials and Tribulations of a "Professional Malcontent": Memoirs 1955-2016

Bernard I. Murstein

Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
2016
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Trials and Tribulations of a "Professional Malcontent" is the second and final volume of author Bernard I. Murstein's memoirs. While his first volume, When Seltzer Was Two Cents a Glass, covered growing up in the Bronx from 1929-1955, this publication covers his life from 1955 to the present. In this very candid work, Murstein reveals his escapades in different cultures as well as living out his fantasies by becoming a stock market expert and a restaurant reviewer, as well as sparring a champion boxer. Murstein grew up with little vocabulary for expressing his feelings and emotions, which might explain his lifelong interest in psychology. Provided in this book are summaries of his seminal research on human attraction, marriage, friendship, and courtship that allowed him to become a world figure in the study of love and marital choice. Also included are several shocking and career-changing instances of anti-Semitism that occurred against a backdrop of the social and political change occurring in the United States during these years. For fans of Moliere's The Misanthrope, this educational, insightful, and sharp-witted account unapologetically explores the life of a frustrated idealist who dreamed big and lived a full-if malcontented-life in America.
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