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Status and Culture: How Our Desire for Social Rank Creates Taste, Identity, Art, Fashion, and Constant Change
by W. David Marx

Status and Culture: How Our Desire for Social Rank Creates Taste, Identity, Art, Fashion, and Constant Change
by W. David Marx

Status and Culture: How Our Desire for Social Rank Creates Taste, Identity, Art, Fashion, and Constant Change
by W. David Marx

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Chapter Seven: Art

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David Marx, W. (2022). Chapter Seven: Art. In David Marx, W. Status and Culture: How Our Desire for Social Rank Creates Taste, Identity, Art, Fashion, and Constant Change. Viking, pp. 143-164

epigone (en)

(noun) follower disciple / (noun) an inferior imitator

150

To create within the framework of someone else’s stereotype makes the creator an epigone, and their work is mere “taste.”

—p.150 by W. David Marx
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To create within the framework of someone else’s stereotype makes the creator an epigone, and their work is mere “taste.”

—p.150 by W. David Marx
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10 months, 1 week ago

idiolect (en)

(noun) the language or speech pattern of one individual at a particular period of life

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The influence process for radical art is always an uphill struggle: works begin as an esoteric idiolect—symbols and ideas spoken and understood by a single person.

—p.156 by W. David Marx
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The influence process for radical art is always an uphill struggle: works begin as an esoteric idiolect—symbols and ideas spoken and understood by a single person.

—p.156 by W. David Marx
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10 months, 1 week ago