Flesh and the Ideal: Winckelmann and the Origins of Art History Book + PRICE WATCH * Amazon pricing is not included in price watch

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

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 who is 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.Read More

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  • 0300058136
  • 9780300058130
  • A Potts
  • 1 July 1994
  • Yale University Press
  • Hardcover (Book)
  • 302
  • illustrated edition
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