Author, Art, and the Market: Rereading the History of Aesthetics (Revised)

Author/Contributor(s):	Woodmansee, Martha
Publisher:	Columbia University Press
Date:	06/06/1996
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

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.