Selections from Héctor Olea and Melina Kervandjian (eds.NYT Magazine 03/2008 profile of curator Mari Carmen Ramírez.Meet with Eddie Sanchez, Education Specialist, LACMA. Meet at LACMA (outside seating area near Ray and Stark restaurant).Įxhibition visit: Home–So Different, So Appealing, at LACMA. Week Two (08/29): Latin American / Latinx The Art Newspaper, special report, July/August 2007 ( PDF).LA Weekly story: Oaxacan indigenous culture in L.A.LA Times story: PST presentation in Mexico City.The Metropolis in Latin America, 1830–1930 (PDF).Golden Kingdoms: Luxury and Legacy in the Ancient Americas (PDF).Visual Voyages: Images of Latin America from Columbus to Darwin (PDF).List of events (consider which ones you might like to attend).Complete lists of exhibitions (start thinking about which ones you would like to explore for your research project and which one you will select for your presentation).Read about the current initiative, PST: LA/LA. Browse and consider the full list of exhibitions.summary description early press release and opening press release.Read about the previous initiative, Pacific Standard Time: Art in L.A. This permanent subfield of avant-garde and independent art became central to future struggles over autonomy and innovation in American art.Week One (08/22): Introduction to the Seminar I show how the American art field generated a subfield of autonomous art that included both avant-garde high art and independent popular art.

These case studies reveal a failure in Bourdieu’s model to account for the role of culture industries and popular artists in the autonomization of modern art fields. My analysis shows that the genesis of principles of autonomy in the United States, unlike France, developed in what were considered the high and popular arts. This general process of autonomization until now has been neglected in the work of sociologists and historians on American art. I present studies in music and film to demonstrate the genesis of an American avant-garde during this period. I argue that a similar autonomization of art occurred in the mid-20th century in the United States. His model of autonomy and legitimacy in modern art was based on a study of the genesis of an avant-garde in French art in the late 19th century. A major contribution of Pierre Bourdieu to the study of art was his analysis of the autonomization of modern art fields.

Harry Smith by Andrew Perchuk