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The use and abuse of art.
Author
Barzun, Jacques, 1907-2012
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Format
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Language
English
Published/Created
[Princeton, N.J.] Princeton University Press [1974]
© 1974
Description
150 pages 27 cm
Availability
Available Online
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Arts and society
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Arts, Modern
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20th century
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Arts and religion
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Arts, Modern
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Series
Bollingen series ; 35:22.
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A.W. Mellon lectures in the fine arts ; 1973.
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Bollingen series, 35. The A.W. Mellon lectures in the fine arts, 22 [1973]
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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.
Contents
Why art must be challenged.
The rise of art as religion.
Art the destroyer.
Art the redeemer.
Art and its tempter, science.
Art in the vacuum of belief.
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ISBN
0691099030
9780691099033
0691018049 ((pbk.))
9780691018041 ((pbk.))
LCCN
73016780
OCLC
800578
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