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The Use and Abuse of Art by Jacques Barzun.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Barzun, Jacques Martin.
- Series:
- Bollingen series. 35, The A.W. Mellon lectures in the fine arts ; 22
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Arts, Modern.
- Arts and society.
- Arts and religion.
- Arts--Histoire.
- Arts.
- Arts, Modern--20th century.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (162 pages)
- Edition:
- 9th print.
- Manufacture:
- Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2021
- Place of Publication:
- Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, [ca. 1995]
- 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.
- Contents:
- 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
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- 1e Princeton paperback uitg.: 1975.
- ISBN:
- 9780691099033
- 0691099030
- 9780691216331
- 0691216339
- OCLC:
- 1227052091
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