The Invisible Masterpiece
Publisher: Reaktion Books
Published: June 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 384
ISBN-13: 9781861890887
Subjects: Art styles not limited by date; Cultural studies; Museums & Museology; Theory of art; Criticism; Art
First sentence: Our notion of the 'work of art' has its origin in the concept of the unique 'masterpiece', an idea that gained currency when the first museums were founded: revered icons or works of star quality were crucial to justify the existence of the temples of art that bourgeois culture demanded.