Author

Publication

2001-09-01 - University Of Chicago Press

Language

English

Word Count

88,000 words, Guess

Page Count

352 pages

Physical Format

Hardcover

Identifiers

and 4 more
  • LibraryThing582832
  • Library of Congress Control Number00053247
  • OCLC Control Number45304719
  • Better World Books9780226753423

Classifications

  • LCCNX440.S5 2001
  • LCCNX440 .S5 2001

Description

"Larry Shiner challenges our conventional understandings of art and asks us to reconsider its history entirely, arguing that the category of ine art is a modern invention - and that the lines drawn between art and craft emerged only as the result of key European social transformations during the long eighteenth century"--Publisher's description.

First Sentence

TODAY YOU can call virtually anything "art" and get away with it.

Subjects

Other Editions

  • The Invention of Art: A Cultural HistoryHardcoverUniversity Of Chicago Press2001-09-01

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