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Inside Culture: Art and Class in the American Home

por David Halle

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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 artists and 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."--Jacket.… (más)
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This book was written for me. I am the director of arts foundation focusing on avant garde digital art and I have an abiding interest in house design and function.

Halle wrote this book to refute popular art theories: that high art is a cultural barrier or that art is controlled and directed by corporations or that art is evidence of the power structure that shuts out the working class from the upper classes. In his investigation of 200 homes in Manhattan the Long Island suburbs he found a distinct difference in art in upper class homes and working class homes, especially Catholic working class home. But he also found a profound set of similarities. First, the predominant art displayed in all homes are landscapes, preferably depopulated landscapes of a calm and ordered nature. Even upper class homes that have abstract art often describe it as "looking like clouds" or the sea or a meadow. Secondarily, no homes feature painted formal portraits of the head of household. Instead both upper and working class household had numerous family only pictures taken at leisure moments in stand alone frames. Thirdly, there is a correlation between the display of "primitive" non-Western art, especially African art, and political affiliation.

If you are interested in the display of art, not in museums, but in the actual homes where people live with it, this is a fascinating book. ( )
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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 artists and 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."--Jacket.

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