Investigating Bourdieu’s Loser Wins Theory In The Art Field

Art field is the development of the principle of autonomy in the19th centuryreached its peak period, formed the confrontation of art and money, in the standoffshowed a "economic logic", and the general economic logic is different. Theconfrontation with "pure art" and "commercial art" confrontation,"cultural unruly"and "bourgeois" confrontation between, as a "heretic" and the conflicts between"orthodox". Bourdieu points of concern is that these differences and conflicts ofconfrontation, who exactly right, who on earth belongs to the real victory."Loserwins" literally understanding is a kind of by the process of "lost" to "win", is theconfrontation between the two and the "win" results, in this process the losers is howto use capital and strategy, occupy the front edge, eventually win? According to thetheory of Bourdieu, the construction of art field is divided into finiteShengChanChang and large-scale ShengChanChang field internal follows the rules ofthe game of "winning loser for"."Loser wins" theory in the field of art reflects a kindof complicated process, art activists to undergo material deprivation and already,living at the edge of the art system, accumulating cultural capital effectively, form theunique art symbol, also note with other actors, the relationship between the gesturesare closely linked together with social life, etc.Although a failure in terms of economy, but the present domain (symbol) occupya certain position, in the long run, these will be converted to economic interests, toform the real economic value. Will not affect the short-term economic difficulties, theartist for effective cultural capital, cultural capital rather than growth trends. In arthistory, we see some artists to defend the purity "art" in the name of survival in thelimited ShengChanChang art field, gain the final victory. It’s like early back certainfutures, it will eventually rise.Bourdieu not only focus on art itself, and pay more attention to the relationshipbetween the artists and art in the field of actors, has all kinds of people in the serviceof art field, they all have different responsibilities, foil the artists’ artistic career.When we turned in our country’s modern art, the losers in the theory could be definedas another meaning, in different periods of art history and theory of "winning loserfor" can be defined as different meanings. We are in different historical periods to theunderstanding of the theory of "winning loser for" should be put in different periods of art development are analyzed, with the aid of bourdieu leave art in the social field,a more comprehensive in-depth analysis of the nature of art.