The invention of art : a cultural history / Larry Shiner.
Published / Created:
Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2001.
Physical Description:
xix, 362 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Collection:
Reference Library
Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 319-341) and index.
Contents:
The Greeks had no word for it -- Aquinas's saw -- Michelangelo and Shakespeare: art on the rise -- Artemisia's allegory: art in transition -- Polite arts for the polite classes -- The artist, the work, and the market -- From taste to the aesthetic -- Hogarth, Rousseau, Wollstonecraft -- Revolution: music, festival, museum -- Art as redemptive revelation -- The artist: a sacred calling -- Silences: triumph of the aesthetic -- Assimilation and resistance -- Modernism, anti-art, and the Bauhaus -- Beyond art and craft?.