Taste : the secret meaning of things /
By: Bayley, Stephen [author.].
Publisher: London : Circa Press, 2017Edition: Revied and extended edition.Description: 288 pages : illustrations (some colour) ; 22 cm.Content type: text | still image | text | still image Media type: unmediated | unmediated Carrier type: volume | volumeISBN: 1911422251; 9781911422259:; 9781911422259.Subject(s): Aesthetics | Culture | Civilization -- HistoryDDC classification: 701.17Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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ATU Sligo Yeats Library Main Lending Collection | 701.17 BAY (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 0082291 |
Originally published: London, Faber and Faber, 1991.
Includes bibliographical references (page 281) and index.
Foreword : it is very difficult -- Taste : the story of an idea -- Architecture : painting the lily -- Interiors : vacuums of taste -- Fashion : being and dressing -- Food : acquired taste -- Consumption : the sport of things.
How do we define 'taste'. The only certainty is that it shifts and changes - sometimes abruptly. With the explosion of vulgar consumerism in the mid-19th century, the Victorians seized upon the notion of 'good taste' as a way of codifying middle-class mores. A century later, to talk about taste had become almost taboo, since judgments made about dress, manners, food and art can often be painfully revealing. And today? When this classic text was first published, Stephen Bayley illuminated the nuances and niceties of our mercurial understanding of taste. In this new edition, he ranges far and wide to bring us up to date.