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Believing Is Seeing: Creating the Culture of Art

By (author) Mary Anne Staniszewski

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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.

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Publisher | Penguin Books Ltd
Published date | 1 Jan 1995
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Format | Paperback / softback
Pages | 320
Dimensions | 208 x 147 x 20mm (L x W x H)
Weight | 313g
ISBN | 978-0-1401-6824-2
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BISAC | art / history / general


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