Le Chef-d'œuvre inutile. Arts At the turn of the

At the turn of the 1st millennium BC

University of California (Berkeley)

Les cinq premiers chapitres

Daniel Arasse thus inspires a desire to see or re-see great moments in painting

a trade commodity valued throughout the prehistoric Mediterranean

Le Chef-d'œuvre inutile. Arts At the turn of theThe current use of the term masterpiece seems paradoxical. It is denied by the reality of art, which proceeds from a work producing pieces in series; decried by the times, which reject it as an anachronistic, if not antidemocratic, notion; distorted by the market, where it is used to designate the work of an artist that sells for the most money and yet, it persists in the form of a compass, a ne plus ultra, a supreme aesthetic experience: never have