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

Princeton University Press

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UPC:
9780691018041
Maximum Purchase:
2 units
Binding:
Paperback
Publication Date:
1975-06-01
Release Date:
1975-06-21
Author:
Jacques Barzun
Language:
english
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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.