The Author, Art, and the Market: Rereading the History of Aesthetics

By Martha Woodmansee and Martha Woodmanesee

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231106017
• ISBN13: 9780231106016
• Release Date: April 1996
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 8.9"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher