Inside Culture: Art and Class in the American Home Hardcover - 1994
by David Halle
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Certain themes dominate the texture of residential life in all four neighborhoods sampled, themes which can never be far from the consciousness of residents.
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David Halle's idea was simple but radical: to connect culture to everyday life by showing how people actually use the artifacts of culture - paintings, photographs, sculpture - in the most intimate of all settings: the home. In the first book of its kind, Halle gives a fascinating account of the uses and meaning of art for those who buy it and live with it. His study ranges from the affluent town houses on Manhattan's Upper East Side and row houses in blue-collar Brooklyn to middle- and upper-middle class suburbs on Long Island, resulting in an unprecedented portrait of the meanings of art for its primary audience. Are there differences in artistic preferences between social classes or races or between urban and suburban homes? Similarities? How do choices in art works - and the way we display them - speak to our dreams, desires, pleasures, and fears? And what do they say about the real cultural boundaries between elite and popular, high and low? Halle examines landscapes, both priceless heirlooms and mass-produced sunsets; abstract paintings and prints; "primitive" sculpture; and the vibrantly colored portraits of religious art. He also discusses the gatherings of family photographs that fill every home. Inside Culture also explores the architecture and design of the houses, from the eclipse of the formal dining room to the landscape of urban backyards. Refusing easy generalizations about culture and class, Halle shows that art has a different set of meanings outside the rarefied air of museums and galleries. He challenges received opinion about the role of the audience in the history and reception of twentieth-century art to show that the experience of art isn't always what artistsand critics say it is. With floor plans, drawings, and dozens of photographs, this lively book can be enjoyed on many levels. It describes for the first time the way a broad cross section of people live with art. It records for the first time the astonishing variety of artistic experience. And it permanently changes our ongoing conversation about what culture contains, what it controls, and what the products called "art" really mean.
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- Title Inside Culture: Art and Class in the American Home
- Author David Halle
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First Edition
- Pages 278
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A.
- Date February 7, 1994
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Maps
- ISBN 9780226313672 / 0226313670
- Weight 1.35 lbs (0.61 kg)
- Dimensions 9.64 x 6.9 x 0.92 in (24.49 x 17.53 x 2.34 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Art - Psychology, Art and society - United States
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 93007335
- Dewey Decimal Code 306.47
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Citations
- Library Journal, 04/01/1994, Page 120
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