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Jacques Barzun The Use and Abuse of Art (Paperback) Bollingen Series
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- Book Title
- The Use and Abuse of Art
- Publication Name
- Use and Abuse of Art
- Title
- The Use and Abuse of Art
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- ISBN-10
- 0691018049
- EAN
- 9780691018041
- ISBN
- 9780691018041
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Genre
- Arts & Photography
- Topic
- Philosophy & Spirituality
- Release Date
- 21/06/1975
- Release Year
- 1975
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- US
- Item Height
- 0.5in
- Item Length
- 9in
- Item Weight
- 8 Oz
- Series
- The A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts Ser.
- Language
- English
- Publication Year
- 1975
- Type
- Textbook
- Item Width
- 6in
- Number of Pages
- 160 Pages
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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.
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Publisher
Princeton University Press
ISBN-10
0691018049
ISBN-13
9780691018041
eBay Product ID (ePID)
693817
Product Key Features
Publication Name
Use and Abuse of Art
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Series
The A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts Ser.
Publication Year
1975
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
160 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9in
Item Height
0.5in
Item Width
6in
Item Weight
8 Oz
Additional Product Features
Series Volume Number
22
Lc Classification Number
Nx440
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When an extremely intellectual, extremely experienced, extremely wise man shares his thoughts with others, the result seizes the imagination at once. Such is the effect of these essays. . . . Barzun examines art as religion, as destroyer, as redeemer, and in relation to what he calls 'its tempter, science,' but never forgets the basic essential. As he says, 'the last word on art should indeed be: mystery. But that need not stop any of us from dealing with it as if we understood more than we can.' And how good it is to have one's mind stretched to that understanding of 'more.', When an extremely intellectual, extremely experienced, extremely wise man shares his thoughts with others , the result seizes the imagination at once. Such is the effect of these essays. . . . Barzun examines art as religion, as destroyer, as redeemer, and in relation to what he calls 'its tempter, science,' but never forgets the basic essential. As he says, 'the last word on art should indeed be: mystery. But that need not stop any of us from dealing with it as if we understood more than we can.' And how good it is to have one's mind stretched to that understanding of 'more.'
Copyright Date
1975
Topic
Criticism & Theory, Aesthetics, History / General
Lccn
73-016780
Dewey Decimal
700
Intended Audience
College Audience
Dewey Edition
19
Genre
Art, Philosophy
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