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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

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Inside Culture: Art and Class in the American Home

Inside Culture: Art and Class in the American Home

Halle, David

Paperback

General ArtGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 0226313689
ISBN13: 9780226313689
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: Dec 1 1996
Pages: 278
Weight: 0.99
Height: 0.64 Width: 6.82 Depth: 9.50
Language: English
Dubbed as You Are What You Hang (or Don't) by the New York Times, Inside Culture takes 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, Contemporary Sociology

This book is well worth reading, especially in your own home.-Eugene Halton, American Journal of Sociology

David Halle's researches earned him a license amateur voyeurs would kill for. . . . Refreshing for readers outside his discipline.-Peter Campbell, London Review of Books

[This book] tells us interesting things about ourselves. . . . It affords us a birds-eye view of American culture from which we can see . . . unsuspected patterns of tastes and acquisitions.-James Gardner, Washington Times

[A] voyeuristic thrill. . . . Lucid and entertaining. . . . A fascinating book that will open the eyes of anyone who's ever glibly said about art, 'I know what I like.' After reading Inside Culture, they'll also know a little bit more about why.-Maureen Corrigan, New York Observer

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