The Author, Art, and the Market

Rereading the History of Aesthetics

• Author(s): Martha Woodmansee,
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Pages: 200
• ISBN_10: 0231106017
  ISBN_13: 9780231106016
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Art / History / General , Education / General , Literary Criticism / General , Philosophy / Aesthetics , Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural & Social ,

Description:... Analyzing the rise of art in the 18th century, this treatise demonstrates how painting, sculpture and literature were not regarded as valuable art forms before the emergence of a new bourgeois culture. The author reveals how Romantic poets and philosophers invented art as we know it today.