Author:

Shiner, L. E (Larry E.) 1934-  Search this

Physical description:

xix, 362 p. : ill. ; 24 cm

Type:

Books

Date:

2001

Contents:

Pt. 1. Before fine art and craft -- Greeks had no word for it -- Aquinas's saw -- Michelangelo and Shakespeare: art on the rise -- Artemisia's allegory: art in transition -- Pt. 2. Art divided -- Polite arts for the polite classes -- Artist, the work, and the market -- From taste to the aesthetic -- Pt. 3. Countercurrents -- Hogarth, Rousseau, Wollstonecraft -- Revolution: music, festival, museum -- Pt. 4. Apotheosis of art -- Art as redemptive revelation -- Artist: a sacred calling -- Silences: triumph of the aesthetic -- Pt. 5. Beyond fine art and craft -- Assimilation and resistance -- Modernism, anti-art, and the Bauhaus -- Beyond art and craft?

Topic:

Arts--History  Search this

Arts--Philosophy  Search this

Data Source:

Smithsonian Libraries

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:siris_sil_686052