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| posterart12 | Jul 6 2013, 05:30 AM Post #1 |
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According to some writers the concept of a distinct category of fine art is an invention of the Early Modern period in the West. Larry Shiner in his The Invention of Art: A Cultural History (2003) locates the invention in the 18th century: "There was a traditional “system of the arts” in the West before the eighteenth century. (Other traditional cultures still have a similar system.) fine art prints |
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