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Assigning Cultural Values

by Kjerstin Aukrust (Volume editor)
©2013 Edited Collection 298 Pages

Summary

Assigning Cultural Values is a collection of thirteen essays focusing on the analysis of cultural value in light of aestheticization or aesthetic practices. Reflecting the fruits of the Research Council of Norway’s comprehensive programme for cultural research (KULVER), this anthology studies cultural phenomena not as static dimensions, but rather as factors involved in negotiations and exchanges. By examining the processes in which aestheticization is prominent, the contributors show how the experience-based, relational, and perceptual aspects of assigning cultural values come into focus. Each of the essays offers unique perspectives on the value given to different cultural phenomena, by focusing on their historically changeable aspects, their reciprocal relationships, and their connection to social contexts and power. Drawing on case studies from the fields of cultural history, aesthetics, literature, film, gender studies, art history and theory, design history, and museology, the collection provides a wide-ranging and multifaceted analysis of how the assignment of cultural values is changed, displaced, transferred, and acquired, and will therefore interest all researchers and students within the field of humanities.

Details

Pages
298
Publication Year
2013
ISBN (PDF)
9783653029284
ISBN (Hardcover)
9783631632987
DOI
10.3726/978-3-653-02928-4
Language
English
Publication date
2013 (May)
Keywords
art history and theory design history museology aestheticization film
Published
Frankfurt am Main, Berlin, Bern, Bruxelles, New York, Oxford, Wien, 2013. 298 pp., 37 fig. col., 7 b/w fig.

Biographical notes

Kjerstin Aukrust (Volume editor)

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