The Invention of Art - A Cultural History

Larry Shiner

University Of Chicago Press

2003

352 páginas

11h 44m

ISBN-10: 0226753433

With The Invention of Art, Larry Shiner challenges our conventional understandings of art and asks us to reconsider its history entirely, arguing that the category of fine art is a modern invention—that the lines drawn between art and craft resulted from key social transformations in Europe during the long eighteenth century.