Aspects of #Taste
Keywords:
fashion, taste, societyAbstract
This research work aims to analyze, with a critical and methodological approach, accompanied by rhizomatic thinking, the various constellations of the fascinating and eclectic universe of taste.
We will consider those aspects that we perceive as emblematic in the fields of sociology, communication, visual arts and above all the economic system and fashion.
To begin the analysis we will introduce the notion of taste and see how this polyform concept has been declined within three scientific articles in particular.
Without claiming to be exhaustive, given the complexity and breadth of the subject, we have therefore sketched a coherent and, we believe, original picture made up of different voices and communicative phenomena that explain the power of influence on the masses of this fascinating world.
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