The Use and Abuse of Art (A.W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts)

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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.

The Use and Abuse of Art (A.W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts),Jacques Barzun,Bollingen,0691018049,Art,Art & Art Instruction,Criticism,History - General,Art / History / General,Art and Architecture

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