Flesh and the Ideal Winckelmann and the Origins of Art History

Name: Flesh and the Ideal Winckelmann and the Origins of Art History
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ISBN: 9780300087369

ISBN-10: 0300087365

ISBN-13: 9780300087369

Edition: 2000

Authors: Alex Potts

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This biography of Winckelmann, 18th-century German philosopher and aesthetician, analyses his magnum opus, History of the Art of Antiquity. It explains the fundamental importance to art history of this account of the imaginative Greek ideal in art.

Book details

List price: $32.00
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: Yale University Press
Publication date: 10/11/2000
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 302
Size: 4.49" wide x 9.25" long x 0.63" tall
Weight: 1.430
Language: English



Acknowledgements


Introduction



Inventing a History of Art


The Significance of Winckelmann's History


A New Paradigm


History as System



Fact and Fantasy


A Lover's Discourse


Rise and Decline


Dichotomies of Freedom


Presences and Absences



Style


The High Style and the Beautiful Style


Precedents


Visual Facts


Verbal and Visual


The Rhetoric of the Image



Beauty and Sublimity


The Sex of the Sublime


Beautiful Masculinity


The Sublime Fetish



Ideal Bodies


The Greek Ideal and the Ideal Ego


Oneness and Ideal Identity


The Body of Narcissus


Nightmare and Utopia



Freedom and Desire


A Free Subject


Politics Patronage and Identity


Friendship and Desire


Endings



Afterlife


Jacobin Politics and Victorian Aestheticism


Revolutionary Heroes


Modernity and its Discontents


Frequently Sited Sources


Notes


Photographic Credits


Index