Title: The mask of art
First published: 1998
Description: Taylor exposes the concept of 'art' as a tool of ethnocentricity and radical ideology. He challenges the history of aesthetics as a recent invention of privileged Western consumerism and questions the myth of its ancient Greek origin.
Subjects: History and criticism, American literature, African Americans in literature, African Americans in motion pictures, Intellectual life, African American aesthetics, African American authors, African Americans, Aesthetics, Film criticism, Criticism, Afro-American authors
Time periods: 20th century
LC classification: PN1995.9.N4 T38 1998