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The Use and Abuse of Art
Language: en
Pages: 159
Authors: Jacques Barzun
Categories: Art
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-07-21 - Publisher: Princeton University Press

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From the celebrated cultural historian and bestselling author, a provocative history of the evolution of our ideas about art since the early nineteenth century
Art History
Language: en
Pages: 396
Authors: W. McAllister Johnson
Categories: Art
Type: BOOK - Published: 1990-01-01 - Publisher: University of Toronto Press

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These essays discuss major questions that should arise in courses in bibliography, methodology, and historiography, once the survey courses are left behind.
The Use and Abuse of Literature
Language: en
Pages: 338
Authors: Marjorie Garber
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-04-03 - Publisher: Anchor

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In this deep and engaging meditation on the usefulness and uselessness of reading in the digital age, Harvard English professor Marjorie Garber aims to reclaim
The Use and Abuse of Books
Language: en
Pages: 66
Authors: Leon Battista Alberti
Categories: History
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The Abuse of Beauty
Language: en
Pages: 198
Authors: Arthur C. Danto
Categories: Art
Type: BOOK - Published: 2003 - Publisher: Open Court Publishing

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Leading art critic and philosopher Arthur Danto here explains how the anti-beauty revolution was hatched, and how the modernist avant-garde dislodged beauty fro