The Abuse of Beauty
Subtitle: The Paul Carus Lectures 21 (Paul Carus Lectures)
Publisher: Open Court
Published: February 2003
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780812695403
Subjects: Cultural studies; History of specific subjects; Personal appearance & beauty care; Fine Arts; Philosophy; Art; Philosophy / Aesthetics; Criticism; 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.