The Abuse of Beauty
Subtitle: Aesthetics and the Concept of Art (Paul Carus Lectures)
Publisher: Open Court Publishing Company
Published: February 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 167
ISBN-13: 9780812695397
Subjects: Cultural studies; History of specific subjects; Personal appearance & beauty care; Philosophy; Art Criticism; Philosophy Of Art; Criticism; Art; General; Fine Arts; Aesthetics
First sentence: It is the mark of the present period in the history of art that the concept of art implies no internal constraint on what works of art are, so that one no longer can tell if something is a work of art or not.