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The Invention of Art: A Cultural History

By Larry Shiner
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By Larry Shiner
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A bracing new way of looking at art and its history

With The Invention of Art, Larry Shiner challenges our conventional understandings of art and asks us to reconsider its history entirely, arguing that the category of fine art is a modern invention—that the lines drawn between art and craft resulted from key social transformations in Europe during the long eighteenth century.

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Art, Architecture & PhotographyPhilosophyArt - History & CriticismMajor Branches of Philosophical StudyGeneral & Miscellaneous ArtAesthetics & Philosophy of ArtArt - General & MiscellaneousGeneral Aesthetics & Philosophy of Art