TRIANGULATING QUOTES
Furthering the initial annotations and analysis made on my chosen documents I have started to triangulate these by identifying quotes and their relation to my chosen subject; 'Rules of taste enforce structures of power'. The sources I have collected so far cover a range of view points and reasoning on the theme of aesthetics and taste, however I feel at this stage I need to include a wider range of sources.
The book from Grayson Perry, whilst very specifically related to the subject, seems slightly biased as it is from an artists point of view. While the source provides valuable reasoning for the argument, it may be useful to find more sources that comment from an external position, perhaps somebody not in the art world, or perhaps somebody that occupies the art power structure, like a critic or curator.
The source from Brent Kalar seems particularly interesting in its more generalized view of aesthetics. Considering aesthetics as a whole, rather than just aesthetics in art, the source provides a whole view of the issues of taste and the problematic nature of defining 'good' taste.
So far I have identified several sub-themes to discuss in my essay:
-Sentimentality
-Subjectivity and Objectivity
-Popularity
-Commercialization and consumerism
-High and low brow
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