The Greeks had no word for it -- Aquinas's saw -- Michelangelo and Shakespeare: art on the rise -- Artemisia's allegory: art in transition -- Polite arts for the polite classes -- The artist, the work, and the market -- From taste to the aesthetic -- Hogarth, Rousseau, Wollstonecraft -- Revolution: music, festival, museum -- Art as redemptive revelation -- The artist: a sacred calling -- Silences: triumph of the aesthetic -- Assimilation and resistance -- Modernism, anti-art, and the Bauhaus -- Beyond art and craft?.