The art of civilization : a bourgeois history /

This book tells the story of how art since ancient Greece is inextricably linked to a particular place and social group: the city and its homegrown species, the bourgeois. Despite the fact that it has glorified the crown and the cross for most of its history, despite its mystical, lofty or subversiv...

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Main Author:	Maleuvre, Didier (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.
Subjects:	Civilization, Western > History. Culture > Study and teaching. Civilization > History. Political science > Philosophy. Religion and culture.