The use and abuse of art.

Main entry:

Barzun, Jacques, 1907-2012.

Title & Author:

The use and abuse of art.

Publication:

[Princeton, N.J.] Princeton University Press [1974]
© 1974

Description:

150 pages 27 cm

Series:

Bollingen series, 35. The A.W. Mellon lectures in the fine arts, 22 [1973]

Notes:
Why art must be challenged. -- The rise of art as religion. -- Art the destroyer. -- Art the redeemer. -- Art and its tempter, science. -- 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.

Resources:
Publisher description

ISBN:

0691099030
9780691099033
0691018049 (pbk.)
9780691018041 (pbk.)

Subject:

Arts and society.
Arts, Modern 20th century.
Arts and religion.
Arts, Modern.
Arts et société.
Arts modernes 20e siècle.
Arts Aspect religieux.
Arts 20e siècle.
20.06 philosophy of art.
Kunst.
Filosofie.

Form/genre:

Lectures (form)

Added entries:

Bollingen series ; 35:22.
A.W. Mellon lectures in the fine arts ; 1973.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 186442
Call No.: ID:87-B7348
Status: Available

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