The A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts. The Use and Abuse of Art / / Jacques Barzun.
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.
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2020] ©1975 |
| Year of Publication: | 2020 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | The A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts ;
35 |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (160 p.) |
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| Other title: | Frontmatter -- Contents -- The Use and Abuse of Arc -- ONE Why Art Must Be Challenged -- TWO The Rise of Art as Religion -- THREE Art the Destroyer -- FOUR Art the Redeemer -- FIVE Art and Its Tempter, Science -- SIX Art in the Vacuum of Belief |
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| Summary: | 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. |
| Format: | Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. |
| ISBN: | 9780691216331 9783110442496 9783110784237 9783111292908 |
| DOI: | 10.1515/9780691216331?locatt=mode:legacy |
| Access: | restricted access |
| Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
| Statement of Responsibility: | Jacques Barzun. |