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The invention of art : a cultural history

Author:L. E. Shiner (Author)

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

Print Book, English, 2001

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Publisher: University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 2001

Genre:History

Physical Description:xix, 362 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

ISBN:

9780226753423, 9780226753430, 0226753425, 0226753433

OCLC Number / Unique Identifier:45304719

Subjects:

Arts Philosophie

Arts Philosophy

Culturele aspecten

Histoire de l'art

Ontstaansgeschiedenis

Philosophie de l'art

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