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The invention of art : a cultural history
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- Creator
- Larry Shiner
- Format
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- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2001
- Physical Details
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- xix, 362 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780226753423, 0226753425
- OCLC
- ocm45304719
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 319-341) and index.
- Pt. I. Before Fine Art and Craft. 1. The Greeks Had No Word for It. 2. Aquinas's Saw. 3. Michelangelo and Shakespeare: Art on the Rise. 4. Artemisia's Allegory: Art in Transition -- Pt. II. Art Divided. 5. Polite Arts for the Polite Classes. 6. The Artist, the Work, and the Market. 7. From Taste to the Aesthetic -- Pt. III. Countercurrents. 8. Hogarth, Rousseau, Wollstonecraft. 9. Revolution: Music, Festival, Museum -- Pt. IV. The Apotheosis of Art. 10. Art as Redemptive Revelation. 11. The Artist: A Sacred Calling. 12. Silences: Triumph of the Aesthetic -- Pt. V. Beyond Fine Art and Craft. 13. Assimilation and Resistance. 14. Modernism, Anti-Art, and the Bauhaus. 15. Beyond Art and Craft?