Art has been an umbrella term for poetry; music, dance, sculpture painting, and architecture since the end of the eighteenth century, when the bourgeoisie were establishing their hegemony over culture and politics in Germany, labor was becoming more clearly divided, and religion was losing its unifying force. Art became a broad and separate entity as the expectations and experience of it changed. "The Institutions of Art" concentrates on German and French literature in illustrating the formation of aesthetic autonomy and ...
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Art has been an umbrella term for poetry; music, dance, sculpture painting, and architecture since the end of the eighteenth century, when the bourgeoisie were establishing their hegemony over culture and politics in Germany, labor was becoming more clearly divided, and religion was losing its unifying force. Art became a broad and separate entity as the expectations and experience of it changed. "The Institutions of Art" concentrates on German and French literature in illustrating the formation of aesthetic autonomy and the divergence between high and popular culture. Peter Burger builds on his earlier "Theory of the Avant-Garde" (1984), pushing further into key theoretical questions about art and society. Christa Burger extends the critique to the history of the novel, focusing on Goethe and Kleist. Looking backward to feudalism and forward to our century, the authors show how the function of art has changed along with the criteria for its production and evaluation.
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Very good in very good dust jacket. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 169 p. Modern German Culture & Literature Series. Audience: General/trade. 169pp. Extremities book & Dj lightly rubbed; light foxing on edges. Endnotes; biblio.; index. Trans. by Loren Kruger. Dj in Mylar.
