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The use and abuse of art.

The lecturer traces the historical development of attitudes toward the arts over the past 150 years, suggesting that the present is a period of cultural liquidation, nothing less than the ending of the modern age that began with the Renaissance.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Barzun, Jacques, 1907-2012 (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: [Princeton, N.J.] Princeton University Press [1974]
Series:Bollingen series ; 35.
A.W. Mellon lectures in the fine arts ; 22.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Why art must be challenged.
  • The rise of art as religion.
  • Art the destroyer.
  • Art the redeemer.
  • Art and its tempter, science.
  • Art in the vacuum of belief.