ENGLISH

The Use and Abuse of Art

By Jacques Barzun

Book information

Publisher
Princeton University Press
Year
2020
ISBN
9780691216331
DOI
10.1515/9780691216331
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
7 MB (6979870 bytes)
Series
The A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts; 35
Pages
160\158
Library
degruyter.com
Time added
2023-08-24 00:38:52

Description

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.

Similar books