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Flesh and the Ideal Winckelmann and the Origins of Art History

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ISBN-10: 0300058136

ISBN-13: 9780300058130

Edition: 1994

Authors: Alex Potts

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Book details

List price: $50.00
Copyright year: 1994
Publisher: Yale University Press
Publication date: 8/31/1994
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 302
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.50" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.782
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