The author, art, and the market : rereading the history of aesthetics /

By:

Woodmansee, Martha

Series: Social foundations of aesthetic forms seriesPublication details: New York : Columbia University Press, 1994.Description: xv, 200 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmISBN:

0231080603
9780231080606
0231106017
9780231106016

Subject(s):

Contents:

Foreword / Arthur C. Danto -- Introduction: Rereading the History of Aesthetics -- 1. The Interests in Disinterestedness -- 2. Genius and the Copyright -- 3. Aesthetic Autonomy as a Weapon in Cultural Politics: Rereading the Aesthetic Letters -- 4. Aesthetics and the Policing of Reading -- 5. Engendering Art -- 6. The Uses of Kant in England.

Summary: Analyzing the rise of art in the 18th century, this treatise demonstrates how painting, sculpture and literature were not regarded as valuable art forms before the emergence of a new bourgeois culture. The author reveals how Romantic poets and philosophers invented art as we know it today.

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Book	Whitecliffe Library General Shelves	General	BH 181 WOO (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Available		0005102

Includes bibliographical references (pages 149-193) and index.

Analyzing the rise of art in the 18th century, this treatise demonstrates how painting, sculpture and literature were not regarded as valuable art forms before the emergence of a new bourgeois culture. The author reveals how Romantic poets and philosophers invented art as we know it today.

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