The use and abuse of art.

Author
Barzun, Jacques, 1907-2012 [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
  • [Princeton, N.J.] Princeton University Press [1974]
  • © 1974
Description
150 pages 27 cm

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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.
      ISBN
      • 0691099030
      • 9780691099033
      • 0691018049 ((pbk.))
      • 9780691018041 ((pbk.))
      LCCN
      73016780
      OCLC
      800578
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