The Invention of Art
A Cultural History
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Word Count
88,000 words, Guess
Page Count
352 pages
Physical Format
Hardcover
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL9676601M
- Internet Archiveinventionofartcu0000shin
- Internet Archiveinventionofartcu0000shin_r0w1
- ISBN-100226753425
- ISBN-139780226753423
Classifications
- LCCNX440.S5 2001
- LCCNX440 .S5 2001
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.
First Sentence
TODAY YOU can call virtually anything "art" and get away with it.
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