The Use and Abuse of Art (A.W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts) (edit title)

Shelfari edited the description of The Use and Abuse of Art (A.W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts) Sunday, August 16 2009.

• The lecturer traces the historical development of attitudes toward the arts over the past 150 years, suggesting that the present is a period of cultural liquidation, nothing less than the ending of the modern age that began with the Renaissance.

Shelfari edited the contributors of The Use and Abuse of Art (A.W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts) Wednesday, July 22 2009.

• Added a contributor: Jacques Barzun: (Primary Author)