TY - BOOK AU - Woodmansee,Martha TI - The author, art, and the market: rereading the history of aesthetics T2 - The social foundations of aesthetic forms SN - 0231080603 PY - 1994/// CY - New York PB - Columbia University Press KW - Aesthetics, Modern KW - 18th century KW - Aesthetics, Comparative KW - Popular culture N1 - Includes bibliographical references (pages 149-193) and index; 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 N2 - 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 ER -