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Inside Culture Art and Class in the American Home

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ISBN-10: 0226313689

ISBN-13: 9780226313689

Edition: 1996

Authors: David Halle

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Dubbed as "You Are What You Hang (or Don't)" by theNew YorkTimes,Inside Culturetakes us on a tour of 160 homes in and around New York City, from affluent townhouses on Manhattan's Upper East Side and rowhouses in blue-collar Brooklyn to middle and upper-class suburbs of Long Island. The result is an unprecedented portrait of the use of cultural artifacts—fine art, photographs, religious art—in private lives."This is a first-class addition to what we know about culture in the specific rather than the abstract."—Howard S. Becker,ContemporarySociology"This book is well worth reading, especially in your own home."—Eugene Halton,American Journal of Sociology"David Halle's researches earned him a…    
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Book details

List price: $37.00
Copyright year: 1996
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 12/1/1996
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 278
Size: 0.67" wide x 0.94" long x 0.06" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English

David Halleis professor of sociology at the University of California, Los Angeles, and director ofthe summer travel program, UCLA in New York: Cities and Cultures. He is also an adjunct professor at the City University of New York's Graduate Center and School of Professional Studies and the author ofAmerica's Working ManandInside Culture, also published by the University of Chicago Press.

List of Illustrations
List of Tables
Acknowledgments
Introduction
The House and Its Context
Empty Terrain: The Vision of the Landscape in the Residences of Contemporary Americans
Portraits and Family Photographs: From the Promotion to the Submersion of Self
Abstract Art
"Primitive" Art
The Truncated Madonna and Other Modern Catholic Iconography
Conclusion
Appendix
Notes
Index