The Use and Abuse of Art |
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Author:
| Barzun, Jacques |
Series title: | The A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts Ser. |
ISBN: | 978-0-691-01804-1 |
Publication Date: | Jun 1975 |
Publisher: | Princeton University Press
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Book Format: | Paperback |
List Price: | USD $26.95 |
Book Description:
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Traces the historical development of attitudes toward the arts over the past 150 years, suggesting that the present is a period of cultural liquidation, nothing less than the ending of the modern age that began with the Renaissance.
Traces the historical development of attitudes toward the arts over the past 150 years, suggesting that the present is a period of cultural liquidation, nothing less than the ending of the modern age that began with the Renaissance.