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Museums and art galleries appear to be and would claim to be open
to all, and yet, in fact, they are visited only by a small segment
of the population. Who are those whose love of art brings them into
museums? What distinguishes them from the majority of people who
exclude themselves or who are effectively excluded?
In this classic study, Bourdieu, Darbel and Schnapper address
such questions on the basis of a wide-ranging survey of museum
visitors throughout Europe. By examining the social conditions of
museum practices, they show that cultivated taste is not a natural
gift but a socially inculcated disposition which is distributed
unevenly, and which predisposes some to distinguish themselves
through their love of art, while others are deprived of this
privilege.
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