The Invention of Art

A Cultural History

(Author) Larry Shiner
Format: Paperback
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"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.

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Publisher:
The University of Chicago Press
Format:
Paperback
Number of pages:
386
Language:
en
ISBN:
9780226753430
Publish year:
2003
Publish date:
April 15, 2003

Larry Shiner

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