| The Use and Abuse of Art Contributor(s): Barzun, Jacques (Author) |
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ISBN: 0691018049 ISBN-13: 9780691018041 Publisher: Princeton University Press OUR PRICE: $25.60 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: June 1975 Annotation: "When an extremely intellectual, extremely experienced, extremely wise man shares his thoughts with others, the result seizes the imagination at once. Such is the effect of these essays, a series given as lectures at the National Gallery in 1973. Mr. Barzun examines art as religion, as destroyer, as redeemer, and in relation to what he calls "its temper, science", but never forgets the basic essential. As he says, "the last word on art should indeed be: mystery. But that need not stop any of us from dealing with it as if we understood more than we can". And how good it is to have one's mind stretched to that understanding of "more.""--Virginia Quarterly Review |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Art | Criticism & Theory - Art | History - General |
| Dewey: 700 |
| LCCN: 73016780 |
| Physical Information: 0.39" H x 6.08" W x 9.02" (0.56 lbs) 160 pages |
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| Publisher Description: 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. |