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The Invention of Art: A Cultural History
By Larry Shiner
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Description
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.
Product details
- Binding:
- Paperback
- Edition:
- illustrated
- Number of Pages:
- 382
- Release Date:
- 2003-04-15
- Publication Date:
- 2003-04-15
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- Languages:
- Published: English, Original: English
- ISBN10:
- 0226753433
- Weight:
- 522 g
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