Old vs. New Middle Class : Collecting Identity in Interwar Central Europe as a Study Concept
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| Year of publication | 2023 |
| Type | Chapter of a book |
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| Description | The essay endeavours to examines the potential of recent concepts of two parallel middle classes (Peter Berger) – the old, traditional middle class and the new middle class, the knowledge class – applied on the field of modernist art collecting studies. It analyses the specific phenomenon of art collecting of businessmen, bankers, lawyers, attorneys, doctors as well as publishers, architects or artists – representatives of the quickly developing old and new middle class – that had been founded or built within the interwar period in Central Europe, as the notable integral parts of the social identity prospective constructs and private as well as professional lives lived by their owners. It suggests a structural societal categorization that aspires to link certain behavioural collecting attitudes and preferences to the individual identifiable social class or group more clearly. |
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