Description:
This book considers the legacy of Bourdieu's sociology of taste and the ideas on art and aesthetics that informed it. It employs an interdisciplinary framework and international perspective that includes contributions from arts practitioners, sociologists, philosophers, museum directors, curators, design historians and art historians from Asia, America, Australia and Europe.
Review Quotes:
"...the editors draw out the richness of his influence, while also exposing the productive con-tradictions in the diverse ways his work is invoked across disciplines and fields. This editorial strategy is so effective because each paper contributes a new perspective to what Quinn describes as the "socially distributed practice of taste..."
Saul Albert, Loughborough University