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The Use and Abuse of Art (A.W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts)
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The Use and Abuse of Art (A.W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts)
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by Jacques Barzun
Sales Rank : 495691
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Paperback: 160 pages
Publisher: Princeton University Press June 1, 1975
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0691018049
ISBN-13: 978-0691018041
Product Dimensions:
8.8 x 6 x 0.5 inches
Shipping Weight: 8.8 ounces
Product Description
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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