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Title: THE USE AND ABUSE OF ART
By: Jacques Barzun
Format: Paperback

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ISBN 10: 0691018049
ISBN 13: 9780691018041
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Publisher: PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS
Pub. date: 1 June, 1975
Series: The A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts
Pages: 160
Description: 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.
Synopsis: 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.
Publication: US
Imprint: Princeton University Press
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