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Believing Is Seeing

Creating the Culture of Art

Mary Anne Staniszewski author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd

Published:1st Jan '95

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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.

ISBN: 9780140168242

Dimensions: 208mm x 147mm x 20mm

Weight: 313g

320 pages