Flesh and the Ideal: Winckelmann and the Origins of Art History

by A Potts (Author)

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2000
$33.10

A biography of Johann Joachim Winckelmann, 18th-century German philosopher and aesthetician. Analyzing Winckelmann's magnum opus, History of the Art of Antiquity , it explains the fundamental importance to art history of this account of the aesthetic and imaginative Greek ideal in art.

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A biography of Johann Joachim Winckelmann, 18th-century German philosopher and aesthetician. Analyzing Winckelmann's magnum opus, "History of the Art of Antiquity", it explains the fundamental importance to art history of this account of the aesthetic and imaginative Greek ideal in art.

$33.10

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 304
Edition: New edition
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 10 Oct 2000
ISBN 10: 0300087365
ISBN 13: 9780300087369