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

by Alan Gowans

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...

• 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"