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    Art, Museums and Everyday Life After Bourdieu

    Series series CRESC
    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 ... Read more

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  • Knowing Nothing, Staying Stupid

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    Why is stupidity sublime?What is the value of a 'dialectics of ignorance' for analysts and academics?Knowing Nothing, Staying Stupid draws on recent research to provide a thorough and illuminating evaluation of the status of knowledge and truth in psychoanalysis. Adopting a Lacanian framework, Dany Nobus and Malcolm Quinn question the basic assumption that knowledge is universally good and ... Read more

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  • The Swastika

    Constructing the Symbol

    by Malcolm Quinn ...
    Series series Material Cultures
    Despite the enormous amount of material on the subject of Nazism, there has been no substantial work on its emblem, the swastika. This original and controversial contribution examines the role that the swastika played in the construction of the Aryan myth in the nineteenth century, and its use in Nazi ideology as a symbol of party, nation and race, treating it as symbolic phenomenon in a cultural ... Read more

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  • Utilitarianism and the Art School in Nineteenth-Century Britain

    by Malcolm Quinn ...
    The mid-nineteenth century saw the introduction of publicly funded art education as an alternative to the established private institutions. Quinn explores the ways in which members of parliament applied Bentham’s utilitarian philosophy to questions of public taste. ... Read more

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