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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.

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The Author Art and the Market

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      Publisher: Columbia University Press
      Publication Date: 06/06/1996
      ISBN13: 9780231106016, 978-0231106016
      ISBN10: 0231106017
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      Theory of art Philosophy: aesthetics

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      Book Synopsis
      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.

      Trade Review
      A riveting snapshot of the moment in Western intellectual history when art became Art. The New Republic

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