Flesh and the ideal : Winckelmann and the origins of art history

Flesh and the ideal : Winckelmann and the origins of art history / Alex Potts.

"Johann Joachim Winckelmann (1717-1768), one of the most important figures ever to have written about art, is considered by many to be the father of modern art history. This book is an intellectual biography of Winckelmann that discusses his magnum opus, History of the Art of Antiquity, in the...

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Main Author: Potts, Alex (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New Haven : Yale University Press, 1994.
Subjects:
Winckelmann, Johann Joachim, > 1717-1768 > Aesthetics.
Winckelmann, Johann Joachim, > 1717-1768 > Influence.
Winckelmann, Johann Joachim, > 1717-1768
1700-1799
Art > Historiography.
Aesthetics, German > 18th century.
Male nude in art.
Sculpture, Greek.
Aesthetics
Aesthetics, German
Art > Historiography
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Male nude in art
Sculpture, Greek
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Table of Contents:
  • Inventing a History of Art
  • Fact and Fantasy
  • Style
  • Beauty and Sublimity
  • Ideal Bodies
  • Freedom and Desire
  • Afterlife.

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