The Invention of Art
Subtitle: A Cultural History
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Published: September 1, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9780226753423
Subjects: Cultural studies; History of art & design styles: c 1600 to c 1800; History of art & design styles: c 1800 to c 1900; History of art & design styles: from c 1900 -; Painting & paintings; The Arts: General Issues; Art & Art Instruction; Art; General; Art / General; History - General; Arts; History; Philosophy
First sentence: TODAY YOU can call virtually anything "art" and get away with it.
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.