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The Use and Abuse of Art (The A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts, 22)

By Jacques Barzun

Book information

Publisher
Princeton University Press
Year
1975
ISBN
0691018049, 9780691018041
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
11 MB (11170961 bytes)
Pages
160\162
Time added
2024-03-28 16:47:15

Description

From the celebrated cultural historian and bestselling author, a provocative history of the evolution of our ideas about art since the early nineteenth century In this witty, provocative, and learned book, acclaimed cultural historian and writer Jacques Barzun traces our changing attitudes to the arts over the past 150 years, suggesting that we are living in a period of cultural liquidation, nothing less than the ending of the modern age that began with the Renaissance. He challenges our conceptions and misconceptions about art “in order to reach a conclusion about its value and its drawbacks for life at the present time.”

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