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The Persistence of Taste - Art, Museums and Everyday Life After Bourdieu (Hardcover)
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The Persistence of Taste - Art, Museums and Everyday Life After Bourdieu (Hardcover)
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This book offers an interdisciplinary analysis of the social
practice of taste in the wake of Pierre Bourdieu's sociology of
taste. For the first time, this book unites sociologists and other
social scientists with artists and curators, art theorists and art
educators, and art, design and cultural historians who engage with
the practice of taste as it relates to encounters with art,
cultural institutions and the practices of everyday life, in
national and transnational contexts. The volume is divided into
four sections. The first section on 'Taste and art', shows how art
practice was drawn into the sphere of 'good taste', contrasting
this with a post-conceptualist critique that offers a challenge to
the social functions of good taste through an encounter with art.
The next section on 'Taste making and the museum' examines the
challenges and changing social, political and organisational
dynamics propelling museums beyond the terms of a supposedly
universal institution and language of taste. The third section of
the book, 'Taste after Bourdieu in Japan' offers a case study of
the challenges to the cross-cultural transmission and local
reproduction of 'good taste', exemplified by the complex cultural
context of Japan. The final section on 'Taste, the home and
everyday life' juxtaposes the analysis of the reproduction of
inequality and alienation through taste, with arguments on how the
legacy of ideas of 'good taste' have extended the possibilities of
experience and sharpened our consciousness of identity. As the
first book to bring together arts practitioners and theorists with
sociologists and other social scientists to examine the legacy and
continuing validity of Pierre Bourdieu's sociology of taste, this
publication engages with the opportunities and problems involved in
understanding the social value and the cultural dispositions of
taste 'after Bourdieu'. It does so at a moment when the practice of
taste is being radically changed by the global expansion of
cultural choices, and the emergence of deploying impersonal
algorithms as solutions to cultural and creative decision-making.
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