The Invention of Art: A Cultural History
by Larry Shiner
University of Chicago Press, 2001
Cloth: 978-0-226-75342-3 | Paper: 978-0-226-75343-0 | eISBN: 978-0-226-75341-6 (all)
Library of Congress Classification NX440.S5 2001
Dewey Decimal Classification 700.9
ABOUT THIS BOOK
A bracing new way of looking at art and its history
With The Invention of Art, Larry Shiner challenges our conventional understandings of art and asks us to reconsider its history entirely, arguing that the category of fine art is a modern invention—that the lines drawn between art and craft resulted from key social transformations in Europe during the long eighteenth century.
With The Invention of Art, Larry Shiner challenges our conventional understandings of art and asks us to reconsider its history entirely, arguing that the category of fine art is a modern invention—that the lines drawn between art and craft resulted from key social transformations in Europe during the long eighteenth century.
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