Ashley Mears: The Value of Beauty. A Lecture about Culture on the Market

07.10.2013

A lecture by Prof. Ashley Mears, PhD, Dept. of Sociology, Boston University, author of the much-acclaimed book Pricing Beauty (Berkeley, 2011).


Prof. Ashley Mears, PhD, Dept. of Sociology, Boston University

Prof. Mears will focus the question of taste and beauty in a cultural production market, the balance between money and art in fashion, and how "incipient taste" happens in a market characterized by uncertainty.

The lecture and following discussion will be held in English.

Thursday, October 24, 2013, 14:00 h
MD.H – Mediadesign University of Applied Sciences
Lindenstr. 20-25, Audimax (2nd Story)

Ashley Mears: The Value of Beauty. A Lecture about Culture on the Market: lecture-ashley_mears_in_berlin-mdh


Prof. Ashley Mears, PhD, Dept. of Sociology, Boston University