Believing Is Seeing
Creating the Culture of Art
Published on 1. January 1995
Book
Paperback/Softback
320 pages
978-0-14-016824-2 (ISBN)
Description
This is a look at the principles of art history. Working from the thesis that modernity is the culture that invented what art is, the author by means of the pictorial essay offers a cultural critique of the contemporary circumstances that have influenced our notions of what art actually is, how we attempt to value it, how we have come to make a business of it. Like film, photography and other forms of mass culture, the author studies how popular taste influences the aesthetic criteria that determine its worth.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 210 mm
Width: 146 mm
Thickness: 19 mm
Weight
462 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-14-016824-2 (9780140168242)
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Person
Mary Anne Staniszewski studies culture and art in relation to political and social notions. Her books are Believing Is Seeing: Creating the Culture of Art and The Power of Display: A History of Exhibition Installations at the Museum of Modern Art .Staniszewski organized a symposium on contemporary slavery at Exit Art in New York. Staniszewski holds a PhD in Art History from the Graduate School and University Center, City University of New York, and is a professor at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
Content
What is art?; art and the modern subject; the term "art"; aesthetics - the theory of art; the privelege - creating art; the academy; the museum; the discipline - art history and the development of modernism; the avany-garde, popular culture, and the creation of the mass media; art and culture today.