The invention of art : cultural history / Larry Shiner.
By: Shiner, L. E. (Larry E.)
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Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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General Lending | MTU Crawford College of Art and Design Library Lending | 700.9 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 00064970 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
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.
"Shiner spent over a decade honing what he calls 'a brief history of the idea of art.' This carefully prepared and--given the extent and complexity of what he's discussing--admirably concise, well-organized book is the result. . . . Shiner's text is scholarly but accessible, and should appeal to readers with even a dabbler's interest in art theory."-- Publishers Weekly
" The Invention of Art is enjoyable to read and provides a welcome addition to the history and philosophy of art."--Terrie L. Wilson, Art Documentation
"A lucid book . . . it should be a must-read for anyone active in the arts."--Marc Spiegler, Chicago Tribune Books
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents provided by Syndetics
- List of Illustrations
- Preface
- Introduction
- The Great Division Words and Institutions
- Part I Before Fine Art and Craft Overview
- 1 The Greeks Had No Word for It Art,techne, ars The Artisan/Artist
- 2 Aquinas's Saw From "Servile" to "Mechanical" Arts Artificers The Idea of Beauty
- 3 Michelangelo and Shakespeare: Art on the Rise Opening up the Liberal Arts
- The Changing Status of Artisan/Artists
- The Ideal Qualities of the Artisan/Artist Shakespeare, Jonson, and the "Work"
- A Proto-Aesthetic?
- 4 Artemesia's Allegory: Art in Transition
- The Artisan/Artist's Continuing Struggle for Status
- The Image of the Artisan/Artist
- Steps toward the Category of Fine Art
- The Role of Taste
- Part II Art Divided
- Overview
- 5 Polite Arts for the Polite
- Constructing the Category of Fine Art
- The New Institutions of Fine Art
- The New Art Public
- 6 The Artist, the Work, and the Market
- The Separation of the Artist from the Artisan
- The Ideal Image of the Artist
- The Fate of the Artisan
- The Gender of Genius
- The Ideal of the "Work of Art"
- From Patronage to the Market
- 7 From Taste to the Aesthetic Learning
- Aesthetic Behavior
- The Art Public and the Problem of Taste
- The Elements of the Aesthetic
- Kant and Schiller
- Sum Up the Aesthetic
- Part III Countercurrents
- Overview
- 8 Hogarth, Rousseau, Wollstonecraft Hogarth's "Hedonist Aesthetics"
- Rousseau's Festival
- Aesthetic Wollstonecraft and the Beauty of Justice
- 9 Revolution: Music, Festival, Museum
- The Collapse of Patronage
- The Revolutionary Festivals
- Revolutionary Music
- The Revolution and the Museum
- Part IV The Apotheosis of Art
- Overview
- 10 Art as Redemptive Revelation Art Becomes an Independent Realm
- The Spiritual Elevation of Art
- 11 The Artist: A Sacred Calling
- The Exalted Image of Artists
- The Descent of the Artisan
- 12 Silences: Triumph of the Aesthetic
- Learning Aesthetic Behavior
- The Rise of the Aesthetic and the Decline of Beauty
- The Problem of Art and Society
- Part V Beyond Art and Craft Overview
- 13 Assimilation and Resistance
- The Assimilation of Photography Varieties of Resistance: Emerson, Marx, Ruskin, Morris
- The Arts and Crafts Movement
- 14 Modernism, Anti-Art, Bauhaus Modernism and Purity
- The Case of Photography Anti-ArtThe Bauhaus Three
- Philosopher-Critics on the Division of Art
- Modernism and Formalism Triumphant
- 15 Beyond Art and Craft? "Primitive Art"
- Crafts-as-Art Architecture as Art
- The Photography-as-Art Boom
- The "Death of Literature"?
- Mass Art Art and Life
- Public Art
- Conclusion
- Notes
- References
- Index