Place and Cultural Capital
Art Museum Visitors Across Space
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4104841 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Laurie Hanquinet (0000-0003-1891-2780, University of York, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 14 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 65-81 |
| Publication date | 2017-06-09 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Museum and Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1479-8360 • E-ISSN: 1479-8360 |
| Publisher | University of Leicester (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.29311/mas.v14i1.677 |
| OpenAlex | W2418961059 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 22 |
In the establishment of people's lifestyles, places, and especially cities, havebecome central arenas for display and consumption, and have become part ofthe aesthetic experience itself. These changes have affected the composition ofcultural capital, which may have then taken an urban dimension. Art museumvisitors, often associated with highbrow culture, constitute an excellent case studyto explore the links between cultural capital and place. Based on a survey of 1900visitors of the six main museums of modern and contemporary art in Belgium,this article will focus on the distribution of the audience characterized by theircultural tastes and activities across the Belgian territory (through their postcodes).It shows that visitors mainly come from areas with high and moderate densityand that the socio-demographic but also urban characteristics of their place ofresidence can be related to the way visitors' cultural capital is composed. Yet,it also suggests that places like cities (just like museums) form meeting places,in which co-exist and interact different stories, different trajectories and, as thisarticle shows, a multiplicity of lifestyles.Keywords: Museum visitors; Pierre Bourdieu; cultural capital; audiences; Belgium
Advertising · Aesthetics · Art · Business · Capital city · Cultural capital · Cultural space · Economic geography · Geography · Highbrow · Literature · Media studies · Social science · Sociology · Visual arts · Cultural Industries and Urban Development · Social and Cultural Dynamics · Sport and Mega-Event Impacts
The Rise of the Creative Class
Economies of Signs and Space
The changing impact of social background on lifestyle
Sociology of Postmodernism
Consumer Culture and Postmodernism
The changing impact of social background on lifestyle
The Neighborhood in Cultural Production
Emerging Forms of Cultural Capital
Mondrian as kitchen tiles? Artistic and cultural conceptions of art museum visitors in Belgium
Elaborating Bourdieu's Field Analysis in Urban Studies
Social Capital, Gentrification and Neighbourhood Change in London
A question of perception
Changing Highbrow Taste
Cultural sociology and new forms of distinction
Arts participation as cultural capital in the United States, 1982-2002
Emerging Cultural Capital in the City
Are art-museum visitors different from other people? The relationship between attendance and social and political attitudes in the United States
Visitors to Modern and Contemporary Art Museums
Consumer Culture and Postmodernism
The Eyes of the Beholder
The social space and the genesis of groups
| Unique citing works | 4 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,4 |
| Citation span | 2016 - 2025 (10) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |