Book: Flesh And The Ideal: Winckelmann And The Origins Of Art History 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, 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.
Details of Book: Flesh And The Ideal: Winckelmann And The Origins Of Art History Book: Flesh And The Ideal: Winckelmann And The Origins Of Art History
Author: Alex Potts
ISBN: 0300087365
ISBN-13: 9780300087369
, 978-0300087369
Binding: Paperback
Publishing Date: Oct 2000
Publisher: Yale University Press
Number of Pages: 304
Language: English