Tasting Qualities Av Sarah Besky

How is value negotiated in the arts and culture? What is quality? And what does it entail to talk about quality in an artistic and cultural context? The ten articles in Contested Qualities discuss such questions from a variety of perspectives. They reflect...

How do people make judgments about what food is worth eating and what tastes good?; how do such judgments come to be shared by groups of people?; what social and organisational processes result in foods being certified as of decent or proper quality?...

<p><b>With an introduction by Jonathan Lethem</b></p><p>It is 1913, and Viennese high society is determined to find an appropriate way of celebrating the seventieth jubilee of the accession of Emperor Franz Josef. But as...