The Use and Abuse of Art by Jacques Barzun.

Author
Barzun, Jacques Martin [Browse]
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)

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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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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
ISBN
  • 0-691-09903-0
  • 0-691-21633-9
OCLC
  • 1227052091
  • 1248759781
Doi
  • 10.1515/9780691216331
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