The Invention of Art: A Cultural HistoryMachine generated contents note: List of Illustrations xi -- Preface xv -- Introduction 3 -- The Great Division 5 -- Words and Institutions 10 -- PART I: BEFORE FINE ART AND CRAFT -- Overview 17 -- 1 The Greeks Had No Word for It 19 -- Art, techne, ars 19 -- The Artisan/Artist 22 -- Beauty and Function 24 -- 2 Aquinas's Saw 28 -- From "Servile" to "Mechanical" Arts 28 -- Artificers 30 -- The Idea of Beauty 33 -- 3 Michelangelo and Shakespeare: Art on the Rise 35 -- Opening up the Liberal Arts 35 -- The Changing Status of Artisan/Artists 38 -- The Ideal Qualities of the Artisan/Artist 45 -- Shakespeare, Jonson, and the "Work" 47 -- A Proto-Aesthetic? 53 -- 4 Artemisia's Allegory: Art in Transition 57 -- The Artisan/Artist's Continuing Struggle for Status 60 -- The Image of the Artisan/Artist 65 -- Steps toward the Category of Fine Art 67 -- The Role of Taste 71 -- PART II: ART DIVIDED -- Overview 75 -- 5 Polite Arts for the Polite Classes 79 -- Constructing the Category of Fine Art 80 -- The New Institutions of Fine Art 88 -- The New Art Public 94 -- 6 The Artist, the Work, and the Market 99 -- The Separation of the Artist from the Artisan 99 -- The Ideal Image of the Artist ill -- The Fate of the Artisan 115 -- The Gender of Genius 121 -- The Ideal of the "Work of Art" 123 -- From Patronage to the Market 126 -- 7 From Taste to the Aesthetic 130 -- Learning Aesthetic Behavior 133 -- The Art Public and the Problem of Taste 137 -- The Elements of the Aesthetic 140 -- Kant and Schiller Sum up the Aesthetic 146 -- PART III: COUNTERCURRENTS -- Overview 153 -- 8 Hogarth, Rousseau, Wollstonecraft 157 -- Hogarth's "Hedonist Aesthetics" 157 -- Rousseau's Festival Aesthetics 159 -- Wollstonecraft and the Beauty of Justice 164 -- 9 Revolution: Music, Festival, Museum 169 -- The Collapse of Patronage 169 -- The Revolutionary Festivals 171 -- Revolutionary Music 175 -- The Revolution and the Museum 180 -- PART IV: THE APOTHEOSIS OF ART -- Overview 187 -- o1 Art as Redemptive Revelation 189 -- Art Becomes an Independent Realm 189 -- The Spiritual Elevation of Art 194 -- n The Artist: A Sacred Calling 197 -- The Exalted Image of the Artist 197 -- The Descent of the Artisan 206 -- 12 Silences: Triumph of the Aesthetic 213 -- Learning Aesthetic Behavior 213 -- The Rise of the Aesthetic and the Decline of Beauty 219 -- The Problem of Art and Society 221 -- PART V: BEYOND FINE ART AND CRAFT -- Overview 225 -- 13 Assimilation and Resistance 229 -- The Assimilation of Photography 229 -- Varieties of Resistance: Emerson, Marx, Ruskin, Morris 234 -- The Arts and Crafts Movement 239 -- 14 Modernism, Anti-Art, and the Bauhaus 246 -- Modernism and Purity 246 -- The Case of Photography 251 -- Anti-Art 253 -- The Bauhaus 258 -- Three Philosopher-Critics on the Division of Art 263 -- Modernism and Formalism Triumphant 266 -- 15 Beyond Art and Craft? 269 -- "Primitive" Art 270 -- Crafts-as-Art 274 -- Architecture as Art 278 -- The Photography-as-Art Boom 282 -- The "Death of Literature"? 284 -- Mass Art 286 -- Art and Life 289 -- Public Art 297 -- Conclusion 303 -- Notes 309 -- References 319 -- Index 343. |
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... popular histories , museum displays , symphony programs , and literary anthologies encourage our natural bent to focus on whatever in the past seems most like the present and to pass over differences . For example , Re- naissance ...
... popular histories , museum displays , symphony programs , and literary anthologies encourage our natural bent to focus on whatever in the past seems most like the present and to pass over differences . For example , Re- naissance ...
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... popular arts ( shoemaking , embroidery , storytelling , popular songs , etc. ) . The fine arts , it was now said , are a matter of inspiration and genius and meant to be enjoyed for themselves in moments of refined pleasure , whereas ...
... popular arts ( shoemaking , embroidery , storytelling , popular songs , etc. ) . The fine arts , it was now said , are a matter of inspiration and genius and meant to be enjoyed for themselves in moments of refined pleasure , whereas ...
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... popular art , commercial art , and en- tertainment arts . Once the modern system of fine arts was firmly in place in the nineteenth century and " art " had come to designate an autonomous realm within society , the art - versus - craft ...
... popular art , commercial art , and en- tertainment arts . Once the modern system of fine arts was firmly in place in the nineteenth century and " art " had come to designate an autonomous realm within society , the art - versus - craft ...
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... popular surveys with titles like " Japanese Art " or " Chinese Art " have bothered to discuss the pro- found differences between those cultures ' basic assumptions about the arts and the mainstream assumptions of Europe and the Americas ...
... popular surveys with titles like " Japanese Art " or " Chinese Art " have bothered to discuss the pro- found differences between those cultures ' basic assumptions about the arts and the mainstream assumptions of Europe and the Americas ...
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... popular surveys and anthologies . Although I want to expose the bias of modernizing narratives and displays , I also want to do justice to the as- pect of truth they contain . What is true in them is that one can indeed find scat- tered ...
... popular surveys and anthologies . Although I want to expose the bias of modernizing narratives and displays , I also want to do justice to the as- pect of truth they contain . What is true in them is that one can indeed find scat- tered ...
Contents
The Greeks Had No Word for It | 19 |
The ArtisanArtist | 22 |
Beauty and Function | 24 |
Aquinass Saw | 28 |
Artificers | 30 |
The Idea of Beauty | 33 |
Michelangelo and Shakespeare Art on the Rise | 35 |
The Changing Status of ArtisanArtists | 38 |
Revolution Music Festival Museum | 169 |
The Revolutionary Festivals | 171 |
Revolutionary Music | 175 |
The Revolution and the Museum | 180 |
THE APOTHEOSIS OF ART | 187 |
Art as Redemptive Revelation | 189 |
The Spiritual Elevation of Art | 194 |
The Artist A Sacred Calling | 197 |
The Ideal Qualities of the ArtisanArtist | 45 |
Shakespeare Jonson and the Work | 47 |
A ProtoAesthetic? | 53 |
Artemisias Allegory Art in Transition | 57 |
The ArtisanArtists Continuing Struggle for Status | 60 |
The Image of the ArtisanArtist | 65 |
Steps toward the Category of Fine Art | 67 |
The Role of Taste | 71 |
ART DIVIDED | 75 |
Polite Arts for the Polite Classes | 79 |
Constructing the Category of Fine Art | 80 |
The New Institutions of Fine Art | 88 |
The New Art Public | 94 |
The Artist the Work and the Market | 99 |
The Ideal Image of the Artist | 111 |
The Fate of the Artisan | 115 |
The Gender of Genius | 121 |
The Ideal of the Work of Art | 123 |
From Patronage to the Market | 126 |
From Taste to the Aesthetic | 130 |
Learning Aesthetic Behavior | 133 |
The Art Public and the Problem of Taste | 137 |
The Elements of the Aesthetic | 140 |
Kant and Schiller Sum up the Aesthetic | 146 |
COUNTERCURRENTS | 153 |
Hogarth Rousseau Wollstonecraft | 157 |
Rousseaus Festival Aesthetics | 159 |
Wollstonecraft and the Beauty of Justice | 164 |
The Descent of the Artisan | 206 |
Silences Triumph of the Aesthetic | 213 |
The Rise of the Aesthetic and the Decline of Beauty | 219 |
The Problem of Art and Society | 221 |
BEYOND FINE ART AND CRAFT | 225 |
Assimilation and Resistance | 229 |
Emerson Marx Ruskin Morris | 234 |
The Arts and Crafts Movement | 239 |
Modernism AntiArt and the Bauhaus | 246 |
The Case of Photography | 251 |
AntiArt | 253 |
The Bauhaus | 258 |
Three PhilospherCritics on the Division of Art | 263 |
Modernism and Formalism Triumphant | 266 |
Beyond Art and Craft? | 269 |
Primitive Art | 270 |
CraftsasArt | 274 |
Architecture as Art | 278 |
The PhotographyasArt Boom | 282 |
The Death of Literature? | 284 |
Mass Art | 286 |
Art and Life | 289 |
Public Art | 297 |
Conclusion | 303 |
Notes | 309 |
References | 319 |
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