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Abstract

Despite the diversity of artistic products (plastic arts, music, literature), the field —in the sense of Bourdieu— of art has a measure, insofar, as a field, it is a logic of production of statements, not a specific social practice. Thus, social life combines practices (provided with simple or complex grammars, as suggested by Bakhtin) and statements, which implies recontextualizing permanently the products of different fields. Well, the product of the field of art is the work. But the social space in which their products circulate, has recently imposed the gradual abandonment of the work. What is usually called "contemporary art", having less work, requires the help of other instances that enunciate what is absent. To what extent is minifiction part of this trend?