The Invention of Art: A Cultural History (edit title)

Shelfari edited the description of The Invention of Art: A Cultural History Wednesday, August 5 2009.

• "A lucid book . . . it should be a must-read for anyone active in the arts."-Marc Spiegler, Chicago Tribune Books With The Invention of Art , Larry Shiner challenges our conventional understandings of art and asks us to reconsider its history entirely, arguing that the category of fine art is a modern invention—that the lines drawn between art and craft resulted from key social transformations in Europe during the long eighteenth century.

Shelfari edited the contributors of The Invention of Art: A Cultural History Wednesday, August 5 2009.

• Added a contributor: L. E. Shiner: (Primary Author)

Shelfari edited the first sentence of The Invention of Art: A Cultural History Thursday, July 16 2009.

• TODAY YOU can call virtually anything "art" and get away with it.