Believing Is Seeing: Creating the Culture of Art

Staniszewski, Mary Anne

This is a look at the principles of art history. Working from the thesis that modernity is the culture that invented what art is, the author by means of the pictorial essay offers a cultural critique of the contemporary circumstances that have influenced our notions of what art actually is, how we attempt to value it, how we have come to make a business of it. Like film, photography and other forms of mass culture, the author studies how popular taste influences the aesthetic criteria that determine its worth.

EAN

9780140168242

Publisher

Penguin Books Ltd

Published

1 January 1995

Pages

320