Main entry:

Shiner, L. E. (Larry E.), 1934- author. aut

Title & Author:

The invention of art : a cultural history / Larry Shiner.

Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2001.

Description:

xix, 362 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 319-341) and index.
pt. 1. Before fine art and craft -- Greeks had no word for it -- Aquinas's saw -- Michelangelo and Shakespeare: art on the rise -- Artemisia's allegory: art in transition -- pt. 2. Art divided -- Polite arts for the polite classes -- Artist, the work, and the market -- From taste to the aesthetic -- pt. 3. Countercurrents -- Hogarth, Rousseau, Wollstonecraft -- Revolution: music, festival, museum -- pt. 4. Apotheosis of art -- Art as redemptive revelation -- Artist: a sacred calling -- Silences: triumph of the aesthetic -- pt. 5. Beyond fine art and craft -- Assimilation and resistance -- Modernism, anti-art, and the Bauhaus -- Beyond art and craft?

Summary:

"Larry Shiner challenges our conventional understandings of art and asks us to reconsider its history entirely, arguing that the category of ine art is a modern invention - and that the lines drawn between art and craft emerged only as the result of key European social transformations during the long eighteenth century"--Publisher's description.

Resources:
Table of contents
Contributor biographical information
Publisher description

ISBN:

0226753425 (alk. paper)
9780226753423 (alk. paper)
9780226753430 (paperback)
0226753433

Subject:

Arts History.
Arts Philosophy.
Arts Histoire.
Arts Philosophie.
Art and Design.
Arts
Kunst
Gesellschaft
Ontstaansgeschiedenis.
Culturele aspecten.
Esthétique.
Philosophie de l'art.
Histoire de l'art.

Form/genre:

History

Holdings:

Location: Library main 218034
Call No.: NX440 .S5 2001
Status: Available