Learning to See: Historical Perspectives on Modern Popular/Commercial Arts

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Learning to See starts on the assumption that popular/commercial arts are a different kind of activity from avant-garde arts today; but that they represent the same kind of activity that we identify as "arts" historically. It proceeds then to investigate how popular/commercial arts carry out the social functions of historic arts. And it claims that, once we can thereby understand how historic arts worked in and for society, art history becomes...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0879721820

ISBN13:9780879721824

Release Date:January 1981

Publisher:Popular Press

Length:524 Pages

Weight:2.00 lbs.

Dimensions:1.3" x 6.1" x 9.1"

Related Subjects

Art Arts, Music & Photography Social Science Social Sciences

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