[…] be discussed normatively as judgements of good or bad taste. When examining Panton’s approach to the concept of taste, the ideas of French sociologist and anthropologist Pierre Bourdieu (1930-2002) offers a useful starting point and theoretical approach when seeking to understand and apply perspective on Panton’s worldview. Bourdieu contemplates taste as a social construct. […]

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Biennalen

2007 Issue #

[…] and crafts work because of their exclusive- ness as brands signalling personal development and as identity-creat- ing markers which -in the spirit of the French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu -state socio-symbolical- lywho we are -and what we can af- ford. Ifyou want agolden rule that will üt everybody, this isit: Have nothing in your houses […]

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