The Mask of Art Breaking the Aesthetic Contract--Film and Literature
- Binding: Paperback
- Publisher: Indiana Univ Pr
- Publish date: 10/01/1998
Description:
Scholar Clyde Taylor exposes the concept of "art" as a device employed by Euro-American culture to dominate historical interpretation. He challenges the history of aesthetics as a recent invention of privileged Western consumerism. Examining various texts, Taylor demonstrates how rationales of "art" are used to mask personal, class, and cultural biases.
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