Flesh and the Ideal : Winckelmann and the Origins of Art History
Flesh and the Ideal : Winckelmann and the Origins of Art History
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This is the first intellectual biography in English of Johann Joachim Winckelmann (1717-1768), one of the most famous eighteenth-century German philosophers and aestheticians who is considered by many to be the father of modern art history. Analyzing Winckelmann`s magnum opus, History of the Art of Antiquity, Potts explains the fundamental importance to art history of this eloquent account of the aesthetic and imaginative Greek ideal in art.
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Flesh and the Ideal : Winckelmann and the Origins of Art History,Alex Potts,Yale University Press,0300087365,Art,Art & Art Instruction,Art Criticism,European,History - General,Individual Artist,Art / History / General
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