Martha Woodmansee
The Author, Art and the Market: Rereading the History of Aesthetics.
Columbia University Press, 1994. The Social Foundations of Aesthetic Forms. First printing. With a foreword by Arthur C. Danto. 0231106017 xv/200 pages.
Softcover volume, measuring approximately 6" x 9", exhibits light shelfwear. Binding is sound. Pages are clean and bright. 
"Analyzing the rise of art in the 18th century, this treatise demonstrates how painting, sculpture and literature were not regarded as valuable art forms before the emergence of a new bourgeois culture. The author reveals how Romantic poets and philosophers invented art as we know it today."