The Author, Art, and the Market :Rereading the History of Aesthetics

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The Author, Art, and the Market

The Author, Art, and the Market :Rereading the History of Aesthetics

3.69 (13 Ratings by Goodreads)
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Published: 16 April, 1996
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Analyzing the rise of art in the 18th century, this treatise demonstrates how painting, sculpture and literature were not regarded as valuable art forms before the emergence of a new bourgeois culture. The author reveals how Romantic poets and philosophers invented "art" as we know it today.
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Type Book
ISBN13 9780231106016
ISBN10 0231106017
Number Of Pages 224
Item Weight 1000 g
Publisher / Reseller Columbia University Press
Format paperback
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A riveting snapshot of the moment in Western intellectual history when art became Art. The New Republic

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