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The Invention of Art: A Cultural History
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The Invention of Art: A Cultural History Hardback - 2001 - 1st Edition

by Larry Shiner

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A bracing new way of looking at art and its history

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.

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TODAY YOU can call virtually anything "art" and get away with it.

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  • Title The Invention of Art: A Cultural History
  • Author Larry Shiner
  • Binding Hardback
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Pages 352
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL
  • Publication date September 1, 2001
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9780226753423 / 0226753425
  • Weight 1.44 lbs (0.65 kg)
  • Dimensions 9 x 6 x 1.05 in (22.86 x 15.24 x 2.67 cm)
  • Category Art & Art Instruction
  • Library of Congress subjects Arts - Philosophy, Arts - History
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 00053247
  • Dewey Decimal Code 700.9

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Larry Shiner is a professor of philosophy at the University of Illinois at Springfield. He is the author of The Secularization of History and The Secret Mirror.

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