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Paperback The Aesthetic Contract: Statutes of Art and Intellectual Work in Modernity Book

ISBN: 0804728437

ISBN13: 9780804728430

The Aesthetic Contract: Statutes of Art and Intellectual Work in Modernity

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Ambitious in scope and innovative in concept, this book offers an overview and critique of the conventions surrounding artistic creativity and intellectual endeavor since the outset of "the broader modernity", which the author sees as beginning with the decline of feudalism and the Church.

As a work of intellectual history, it suggests that art and the conventions associated with the artistic constitute a secular institution that has supplanted...

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