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

By: 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
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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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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.

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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