The Invention of Art

The Invention of Art: A Cultural History

Paperback Published on: 15/04/2003
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Synopsis

With "The Invention of Art", Larry Shiner challenges our conventional understandings of art and asks us to reconsider its history entirely, arguing that the category of fine art is a modern invention - that the lines drawn between art and craft resulted from key social transformations in Europe during the long 18th century.

  • Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
  • ISBN: 9780226753430
  • Number of pages: 352
  • Weight: 624g
  • Dimensions: 23 x 17 x 2 mm

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