Download or read book The Use and Abuse of Art written by Jacques Barzun and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 1975-06-21 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The lecturer traces the historical development of attitudes toward the arts over the past 150 years, suggesting that the present is a period of cultural liquidation, nothing less than the ending of the modern age that began with the Renaissance.