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Book Writings on Art

    Book Details:
  • Author : Johann Joachim Winckelmann
  • Publisher : Phaidon Press
  • Release : 1972
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 200 pages

Download or read book Writings on Art written by Johann Joachim Winckelmann and published by Phaidon Press. This book was released on 1972 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winckelmann was a German classical archaeologist and art historian who is considered the founder of neoclassicism and of systematic art history.

Book History of the Art of Antiquity

    Book Details:
  • Author : Johann Joachim Winckelmann
  • Publisher : Getty Publications
  • Release : 2006-01-15
  • ISBN : 9780892366682
  • Pages : 452 pages

Download or read book History of the Art of Antiquity written by Johann Joachim Winckelmann and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 2006-01-15 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Translation of a foundational text for the disciplines of art history and archaeology. Offers a systematic history of art in ancient Egypt, Persia, Etruria, Rome, and, above all, Greece that synthesizes the visual and written evidence then available"--Provided by publisher.

Book Winckelmann s Images from the Ancient World

Download or read book Winckelmann s Images from the Ancient World written by Johann Joachim Winckelmann and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2013-03-05 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Assembled by the father of modern art history, this landmark 1767 publication features more than 200 fine engravings. Its fascinating panorama of images from classical civilizations includes informative text and captions.

Book Johann Joachim Winckelmann on Art  Architecture  and Archaeology

Download or read book Johann Joachim Winckelmann on Art Architecture and Archaeology written by Johann Joachim Winckelmann and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2013 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Modern English translations of several of the most important essays of Winckelmann, one of the fathers of art history and archaeology and a strong influence on Goethe and Schiller and Weimar Classicism. Johann Joachim Winckelmann (1717-68) has long been recognized as one of the founders of modern art history and a major force in the development of archaeology and the study of ancient Greek architecture. He also exerted an influence on the Weimar Classicism of Goethe and Schiller, for whom his description of Greek sculpture as evoking "edle Einfalt und stille Grösse" (noble simplicity and a calm greatness) became a watchword. He contributed to modern scientific archaeology through his application of empirically derived categories of style to the analysis of classical works of art and architecture, and was one of the first to undertake detailed empirical examinations of artifacts and describe them precisely in a way that enabled reasoned conclusions to be drawn about ancient societies and their cultures. Yet several of his important essays are not available in modern English translation. The present volume remedies this situation by collecting four of Winckelmann's most seminal essays on art along with several shorter pieces on the topic, two major if brief essays on architecture, and one longer essay on archaeology. Paired with thisis an introduction covering Winckelmann's life and work. David Carter is retired as Professor of Communicative English at Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea, and is former Lecturer in German Studies at the University of Southampton, UK. Among his recently published translations from German are Klaus Mann's novel Alexander (2008) and On Cocaine (2011), a collection of Sigmund Freud's writings on the topic.

Book Flesh and the Ideal

    Book Details:
  • Author : Alex Potts
  • Publisher : Yale University Press
  • Release : 2000-01-01
  • ISBN : 9780300087369
  • Pages : 310 pages

Download or read book Flesh and the Ideal written by Alex Potts and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2000-01-01 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winckelmann's writing has a richness and density that take it well beyond the bounds of the simple rationalist art history and Neo-classical art theory with which it is usually associated. He often seems to speak disturbingly directly to our present awareness of the discomforting ideological and psychic contradictions inherent in supposedly ideal symbolic forms.

Book Museums and Their Development  The European Tradition 1700 1900

Download or read book Museums and Their Development The European Tradition 1700 1900 written by Susan Pearce and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Philosophy in the Present

Download or read book Philosophy in the Present written by Alain Badiou and published by Polity. This book was released on 2009-12-14 with total page 117 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two controversial thinkers discuss a timeless but nonetheless urgent question: should philosophy interfere in the world? Nothing less than philosophy is at stake because, according to Badiou, philosophy is nothing but interference and commitment and will not be restrained by academic discipline. Philosophy is strange and new, and yet speaks in the name of all - as Badiou shows with his theory of universality. Similarly, Zizek believes that the philosopher must intervene, contrary to all expectations, in the key issues of the time. He can offer no direction, but this only shows that the question has been posed incorrectly: it is valid to change the terms of the debate and settle on philosophy as abnormality and excess. At once an invitation to philosophy and an introduction to the thinking of two of the most topical and controversial philosophers writing today, this concise volume will be of great interest to students and general readers alike.

Book The History Of Ancient Art  Volume 2

    Book Details:
  • Author : Johann Joachim Winckelmann
  • Publisher : Legare Street Press
  • Release : 2022-10-27
  • ISBN : 9781016304757
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book The History Of Ancient Art Volume 2 written by Johann Joachim Winckelmann and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2022-10-27 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Book Winckelmann and the Invention of Antiquity

Download or read book Winckelmann and the Invention of Antiquity written by Katherine Harloe and published by . This book was released on 2013-08-29 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume provides a new perspective on the emergence of the modern study of antiquity, Altertumswissenschaft, in eighteenth-century Germany through an exploration of debates that arose over the work of the art historian Johann Joachim Winckelmann between his death in 1768 and the end of the century. Winckelmann's eloquent articulation of the cultural and aesthetic value of studying the ancient Greeks, his adumbration of a new method for studying ancient artworks, and his provision of a model of cultural-historical development in terms of a succession of period styles, influenced both the public and intra-disciplinary self-image of classics long into the twentieth century. Yet this area of Winckelmann's Nachleben has received relatively little attention compared with the proliferation of studies concerning his importance for late eighteenth-century German art and literature, for historians of sexuality, and his traditional status as a 'founder figure' within the academic disciplines of classical archaeology and the history of art. Harloe restores the figure of Winckelmann to classicists' understanding of the history of their own discipline and uses debates between important figures, such as Christian Gottlob Heyne, Friedrich August Wolf, and Johann Gottfried Herder, to cast fresh light upon the emergence of the modern paradigm of classics as Altertumswissenschaft: the multi-disciplinary, comprehensive, and historicizing study of the ancient world.

Book Winckelmann

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  • Author : Johann Joachim Winckelmann
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1972
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 166 pages

Download or read book Winckelmann written by Johann Joachim Winckelmann and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Reflections on the Painting and Sculpture of the Greeks

Download or read book Reflections on the Painting and Sculpture of the Greeks written by Johann Joachim Winckelmann and published by . This book was released on 1765 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Letter and Report on the Discoveries at Herculaneum

Download or read book Letter and Report on the Discoveries at Herculaneum written by Johann Joachim Winckelmann and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 2011 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new translation brings to light the early days of scientific archaeology and the unearthing and study of Herculaneum and Pompeii as observed by the erudite and acerbic art historian Johann Joachim Winckelmann (1717-1768). His Letter, published in German in 1762, displays his extensive knowledge of geology, ancient literature, and art while offering a scathing critique of the Spanish Bourbon excavations around the Bay of Naples and of the officials involved. He further discusses these topics in his equally controversial Report of 1764. The introduction describes the context in which these texts were written, identifies various politicians, academics, and collectors, and elucidates topics of particular interest to Winckelmann, from artifacts to local customs to the contents of ancient papyri. The illustrations, particularly those from the Bourbon publication--Le Antichità di Ercolano (1757-92)--illuminate how these monuments influenced contemporary perception of the ancient world.

Book The Art of Art History

    Book Details:
  • Author : Donald Preziosi
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
  • Release : 2009
  • ISBN : 0199229848
  • Pages : 600 pages

Download or read book The Art of Art History written by Donald Preziosi and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2009 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This anthology is a guide to understanding art history through critical reading of the field's most innovative and influential texts, focusing on the past two centuries.

Book Painting  Ethics  and Aesthetics in Rome

Download or read book Painting Ethics and Aesthetics in Rome written by Nathaniel B. Jones and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-01-24 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Demonstrates how ancient Roman mural paintings stood at the intersection of contemporary social, ethical, and aesthetic concerns.

Book Winckelmann

    Book Details:
  • Author : Johann Joachim Winckelmann
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1972
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 166 pages

Download or read book Winckelmann written by Johann Joachim Winckelmann and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Laocoon

    Book Details:
  • Author : E C Beasley
  • Publisher : Legare Street Press
  • Release : 2023-07-18
  • ISBN : 9781019472262
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Laocoon written by E C Beasley and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This seminal essay by Enlightenment philosopher E.C. Beasley wrestles with the enduring question of the relationship between visual and literary arts. Beasley analyzes the ancient Greek sculpture Laocoon and its influence on the poetry of Virgil, ultimately arguing that both limit the imagination by offering a single perspective. This book is an insightful exploration of the intersections between art, literature, and philosophy that will engage readers across disciplines. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Book Reflections on the Imitation of Greek Works in Painting and Sculpture

Download or read book Reflections on the Imitation of Greek Works in Painting and Sculpture written by Johann Joachim Winckelmann and published by Open Court Publishing Company. This book was released on 1987 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: