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The Use and Abuse of Art by Jacques Barzun.
Author
Barzun, Jacques Martin
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Format
Book
Language
English
Εdition
9th print.
Published/Created
Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, [ca. 1995]
Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2021
©[ca. 1995]
Description
1 online resource (162 pages)
Availability
Available Online
De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook Package Archive 1927-1999
de Gruyter eBooks Complete
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Subject(s)
Arts
—
Histoire
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Arts and religion
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Arts, Modern
—
20th century
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Arts and society
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Related name
Bollingen Foundation Collection (Library of Congress)
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Series
Bollingen series. 35, The A.W. Mellon lectures in the fine arts ; 22
Summary note
The lecturer traces the historical development of attitudes toward the arts over the past 150 years, suggesting that the present is a period of cultural liquidation, nothing less than the ending of the modern age that began with the Renaissance.
Notes
1e Princeton paperback uitg.: 1975.
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Description based on print version record.
Contents
Frontmatter
Contents
The Use and Abuse of Arc
ONE Why Art Must Be Challenged
TWO The Rise of Art as Religion
THREE Art the Destroyer
FOUR Art the Redeemer
FIVE Art and Its Tempter, Science
SIX Art in the Vacuum of Belief
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ISBN
0-691-09903-0
0-691-21633-9
OCLC
1227052091
1248759781
Doi
10.1515/9780691216331
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