Trends in Contemporary Art Discourse: Using Topic Models to Analyze 25 years of Professional Art Criticism

Cultural Sociology

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2018, Pages 303-324

  Roose, Henk ^a   Roose, Willem ^a   Daenekindt, Stijn ^a,b  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

contemporary art; Nathalie Heinich; Pierre Bourdieu; professional discourse; topic models

Indexed keywords

EID: 85051520460     PISSN: 17499755     EISSN: 17499763     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1749975518764861     Document Type: Article

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