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The A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts. The Use and Abuse of Art / Jacques Barzun.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: The A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts ; 35Publisher: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2020]Copyright date: ©1975Description: 1 online resource (160 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780691216331
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 700 23
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  • online - DeGruyter
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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
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.
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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - DeGruyter (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (dgr)9780691216331

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

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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.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 28. Mrz 2023)