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10. HISTORY | HERITAGE
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A young country for europeans but very old in terms of the indigenous population. There is archeology both very recent and very old.
Funereal Statuary at Victoria and Albert
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Memorial to a young woman named Finch. This piece was rescued from a ruined church in Essex.
Chihuly Sculpture - Victoria & Albert Museum
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A Chihuly
The Love of Art
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Everyone can visit the art treasures held in the great museums of the world ye, in fact, art museums are visited by only a small segment of the population. What are the characteristics of those who display their love of art by strolling through the galleries of museums? What distinguishes them from the majority of people who are effectively excluded, or exclude themselves, from their doors?
This classic study addresses such questions on the basis of a wide-ranging survey of museums and museum visitors in France, Greece, Spain, Italy, the Netherlands, and Poland. Central to the analysis of Pierre Bourdieu and his associates is the elaboration of the theory of culture as a form of capital. This work shows that art is of great value in society as cultural capital, yet to a great extent the appreciation of art is considered intensely personal, something ineffable.
Bourdieu challenges this idea, asserting that it is merely one aspect of the ideological underpinnings of social inequality; further, that the power of the idea is such that it has come to pervade the beliefs of even culturally deprived groups, so that they accept and become accomplices in their exclusion and subordination. He reveals those mechanisms of society that together produce our conceptions of art, the artist, the public, and the creation of cultural value through semi-autonomous processes and institutions.
The book is in three parts. Part I describes and analyzes the dynamics of museum attendance: how it is related to occupation, educational level, age, income, amount of leisure time, and family background. Part II deals with cultural dissemination in a comparative summation of the attendance trends and presentation of art in different countries and types of museums, to which he appends a critique of museum policies and practices. In the conclusion, he argues against those who are convinced that there are varying abilities to appreciate art but resist attempts to account for the difference, those who prefer that taste remain a mysterious gift.
This is a reproduction edition from a scanned copy for Stanford University Press. Please review the online preview to see the obvious anamolies that will occur in printing this work.
