Believing is seeing : creating the culture of art
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Believing is seeing : creating the culture of art
(Penguin books)
Penguin, 1995
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 303-308)
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This is a look at the principles of art history. Working from the thesis that modernity is the culture that invented what art is, the author by means of the pictorial essay offers a cultural critique of the contemporary circumstances that have influenced our notions of what art actually is, how we attempt to value it, how we have come to make a business of it. Like film, photography and other forms of mass culture, the author studies how popular taste influences the aesthetic criteria that determine its worth.
Table of Contents
- What is art?
- art and the modern subject
- the term "art"
- aesthetics - the theory of art
- the privelege - creating art
- the academy
- the museum
- the discipline - art history and the development of modernism
- the avany-garde, popular culture, and the creation of the mass media
- art and culture today.
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