The Use and Abuse of ArtPrinceton University Press, 1975 M06 21 - 150 pages From the celebrated cultural historian and bestselling author, a provocative history of the evolution of our ideas about art since the early nineteenth century |
Contents
Why Art Must Be Challenged | 3 |
The Rise of Art as Religion | 24 |
Art the Destroyer | 47 |
Art the Redeemer | 73 |
Art and Its Tempter Science | 97 |
Art in the Vacuum of Belief | 123 |
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abstract anti-art architecture art and religion art's avant-garde beauty become beholder believe Berlioz bour bourgeois bourgeoisie called century civilization Clive Bell colors common concrete poetry contemporary art create criticism Cubist cultural destroy disposable art Elie Faure emotions esthetic example fact faith feeling fiction figurative arts French function genius geois give habit Hegel hope human ideal ideas imagination lecture live Mallarmé matter means ment metaphor mind modern art moral nature Nietzsche Nikolaus Pevsner novel object painter painting passion philistine poem poet poetry political present produce Protestant Reformation purpose reality reason redeem religion of art religious Renaissance revolution revolutionary art Roger Fry role Ruskin salvation scene Schiller self-conscious sense social society soul speak spiritual spontaneous style symbol Symbolist T. S. Eliot things thought tion tradition true truth turn Victorian moralism whole words
References to this book
Total Truth: Liberating Christianity from Its Cultural Captivity Nancy Pearcey No preview available - 2005 |