Leave a Mark (pp. 154-9)
Bourdieu begins this section by defining a "dialectic of distinction" by which all institutions and artists which have "'left their mark'" inevitably are displaced by subsequent institutions and artists. This law of change in the field of production particularly ages producers locked in "patterns of perceptions or appreciation" or "institutional concepts" since these patterns or concepts become "canonized, academicized, and neutralized" with time.
Bourdieu asserts that the field is temporalized through this struggle "between the dominants whose strategy is tied to continuity, identity and reproduction, and the dominated, the new entrants, whose interest is in discontinuity, rupture, difference and revolution." In other words, time or aging is produced after a rupture as each work moves up the chain and the following assumes the newly created vacancy. Producers attempt "marks of distinction" and "signs of recognition" in an effort to sustain the moment of dominance. Galleries and publishing houses are similarly temporalized, aging from the avant-garde to the consecrated. In this "field of present" those struggling are "simultaneously contemporaries and temporally discordant" because of their different artistic ages. See Figure 6 (p. 159) in which Bourdieu illustrates the "temporality of the field of artistic production."
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