The Art of Civilization: A Bourgeois History by Didier Maleuvre
English | June 22nd, 2016 | ISBN: 1349948683, 1349956619 | 316 Pages | EPUB | 1.48 MB
Didier Maleuvre argues that works of art in Western societies from Ancient Greece to the interconnected worlds of the Digital Age have served to rationalize and normalize an engagement with bourgeois civilization and the city. Maleuvre details that the history of art itself is the history civilization, giving rise to the particular aesthetics and critical attitudes of respective moments and movements in changing civilizations in a dialogical mode.