The Use and Abuse of Art (Bollingen XLV) (The A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts) - Softcover

Barzun, Jacques

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ISBN 10: 0691018049 ISBN 13: 9780691018041

Verlag: Princeton University Press, 1975

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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.

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Jacques Barzun (1907–2012) was professor of history at Columbia University and the author of many books, including the bestselling From Dawn to Decadence: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life, 1500 to the Present; Simple and Direct; The Energies of Art; and The House of Intellect.

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"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

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• Verlag: Princeton University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1975
• ISBN 10: 0691018049
• ISBN 13: 9780691018041
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Sprache: Englisch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 160
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