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List of Illustrations | |
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Preface | |
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Introduction | |
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The Great Division | |
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Words and Institutions | |
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Before Fine Art and Craft | |
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Overview | |
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The Greeks Had No Word for It | |
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Art, techne, ars | |
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The Artisan/Artist | |
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Beauty and Function | |
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Aquinas's Saw | |
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From "Servile" to "Mechanical" Arts | |
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Artificers | |
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The Idea of Beauty | |
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Michelangelo and Shakespeare: Art on the Rise | |
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Opening up the Liberal Arts | |
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The Changing Status of Artisan/Artists | |
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The Ideal Qualities of the Artisan/Artist | |
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Shakespeare, Jonson, and the "Work" | |
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A Proto-Aesthetic? | |
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Artemisia's Allegory: Art in Transition | |
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The Artisan/Artist's Continuing Struggle for Status | |
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The Image of the Artisan/Artist | |
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Steps toward the Category of Fine Art | |
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The Role of Taste | |
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Art Divided | |
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Overview | |
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Polite Arts for the Polite Classes | |
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Constructing the Category of Fine Art | |
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The New Institutions of Fine Art | |
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The New Art Public | |
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The Artist, the Work, and the Market | |
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The Separation of the Artist from the Artisan | |
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The Ideal Image of the Artist | |
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The Fate of the Artisan | |
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The Gender of Genius | |
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The Ideal of the "Work of Art" | |
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From Patronage to the Market | |
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From Taste to the Aesthetic | |
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Learning Aesthetic Behavior | |
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The Art Public and the Problem of Taste | |
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The Elements of the Aesthetic | |
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Kant and Schiller Sum up the Aesthetic | |
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Countercurrents | |
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Overview | |
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Hogarth, Rousseau, Wollstonecraft | |
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Hogarth's "Hedonist Aesthetics" | |
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Rousseau's Festival Aesthetics | |
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Wollstonecraft and the Beauty of Justice | |
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Revolution: Music, Festival, Museum | |
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The Collapse of Patronage | |
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The Revolutionary Festivals | |
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Revolutionary Music | |
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The Revolution and the Museum | |
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The Apotheosis of Art | |
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Overview | |
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Art as Redemptive Revelation | |
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Art Becomes an Independent Realm | |
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The Spiritual Elevation of Art | |
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The Artist: A Sacred Calling | |
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The Exalted Image of the Artist | |
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The Descent of the Artisan | |
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Silences: Triumph of the Aesthetic | |
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Learning Aesthetic Behavior | |
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The Rise of the Aesthetic and the Decline of Beauty | |
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The Problem of Art and Society | |
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Beyond Fine Art and Craft | |
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Overview | |
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Assimilation and Resistance | |
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The Assimilation of Photography | |
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Varieties of Resistance: Emerson, Marx, Ruskin, Morris | |
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The Arts and Crafts Movement | |
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Modernism, Anti-Art, and the Bauhaus | |
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Modernism and Purity | |
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The Case of Photography | |
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Anti-Art | |
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The Bauhaus | |
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Three Philosopher-Critics on the Division of Art | |
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Modernism and Formalism Triumphant | |
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Beyond Art and Craft? | |
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"Primitive" Art | |
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Crafts-as-Art | |
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Architecture as Art | |
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The Photography-as-Art Boom | |
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The "Death of Literature"? | |
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Mass Art | |
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Art and Life | |
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Public Art | |
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Conclusion | |
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Notes | |
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References | |
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Index | |