Taste Today The Role of Appreciation in Consumerism and Design

Name: Taste Today The Role of Appreciation in Consumerism and Design
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ISBN: 9780080402512

ISBN-10: 0080402518

ISBN-13: 9780080402512

Edition: 1991

Authors: Peter Lloyd Jones

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In the affluent economy of the 1990s, consumer culture is becoming increasingly removed from the functionalism of satisfying primary physical needs and moving towards an indulgence of 'taste' - the acts and arts of appreciation. Taste Today , the winner of the International Robert Maxwell Prize for New Writing on Design Thinking , aims to redirect the attention of designers, marketeers and consumers to the subjective factors which underlie the choice and purchase of possessions. Combining critical studies from the history of art and design with recent advances in sociological and psychological theory in consumer behaviour, Taste Today provides a unique account of the concept of 'taste'…

Book details

List price: $92.00
Copyright year: 1991
Publisher: Elsevier Science & Technology Books
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 318
Size: 10.25" wide x 10.50" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 2.992
Language: English