Learning to See: Historical Perspective on Modern Popular/commercial Arts
- ISBN-10
- 0879721820
- ISBN-13
- 9780879721824
- Series
- Learning to See
- Category
- Art
- Pages
- 514
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1981
- Publisher
- Popular Press
- Author
- Alan Gowans
Description
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.
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