The invention of art : a cultural history /
Larry Shiner.
- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2001.
- xix, 362 p. : ill ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 319-341) and index.
Choice. Publisher's Weekly.
Reconsiders the history of art by arguing that the category of fine art is a modern invention and that the lines drawn between art and craft resulted from key social transformations in Europe during the eighteenth century.