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As said in last, I’d like to explore the relevance of H.Gans subdivisions of taste culture to attitudes towards landscapes. The subdivisions are: high culture, upper middle culture, lower middle, low culture and quasi-folk low culture.
The first two may be considered to constitute the cultural “elite”; both share familiarity with Literature, Music and Art, which might enable aesthetic appreciation in those subjects and, by extension, aesthetic appreciation of landscapes. Gans emphasizes that the dividing lines between the subdivisions is not
based so much in socio-economics but in the kind and level of education (although in countries like USA
(to be continued in Next Post)
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