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

By Alan Gowans

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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 a significant new tool for objective historical research as never before.

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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