Theories of Art: 2. From Winckelmann to Baudelaire

by Barasch,Moshe

• ISBN13: 9780415926263
• ISBN10: 0415926262
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2000-11-07
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

This second book in Moshe Barasch's series on art theory surveys the development of the field from the early eighteenth to the mid-nineteenth centuries. During this period theories of the visual arts, particularly of painting and sculpture, underwent a radical transformation, as a result of which the intellectual foundations of our modern views on the arts were formed. Because this transformation can only be understood within the context of cultural, aesthetic, and philosophical developments of the period, Barasch surveys the opinions of the artists, as well as the doctrines of philosophers, poets and critics. He thus traces for the reader the entire development of modernism in art and art theory.

Author Biography

Moshe Barasch is Jack Cotton Professor of Architecture and Fine Arts at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem.

Table of Contents

Introduction to the Routledge Edition (2000)	xi
Introduction	xxiii
Antiquity
Introduction	1	(3)
The Philosophers	4	(10)
Plato	4	(5)
Aristotle	9	(5)
Teachings of the Workshops	14	(8)
Xenophon	14	(2)
Polyclitus	16	(2)
Xenocrates	18	(4)
The Problem of the Artist	22	(12)
Social Conditions	23	(2)
The artist's imagination	25	(9)
Plotinus	34	(11)
The Middle Ages	45	(63)
Iconoclasm	47	(13)
The Early Middle Ages: The West	60	(9)
Workshop Literature	69	(18)
Aesthetic Values in the Late Middle Ages	87	(10)
Scholasticism	97	(11)
The Early Renaissance	108	(55)
The Imitation of Nature: A Concept Emerges	114	(6)
Alberti: The Birth of a New Theory of Art	120	(7)
``Correct Imitation'': Art and Science	127	(3)
Anatomy	130	(2)
Leonardo da Vinci	132	(10)
Durer	142	(6)
Formal Correctness: Perspective	148	(15)
The Artist and the Medium: Some Facets of the High Renaissance	163	(40)
Paragone	164	(10)
Rise of the Creative Artist	174	(16)
Social conditions	175	(5)
The artist's nature	180	(6)
The gift of creativity	186	(4)
Michelangelo	190	(13)
The Late Renaissance	203	(107)
New Authors and New Readers	203	(6)
Florence and Rome	209	(32)
Vasari	209	(19)
Vincenzio Danti	228	(8)
Armenini	236	(5)
Venice	241	(21)
Prelude	243	(4)
Hypnerotomachia Poliphili	247	(2)
The system of painting	249	(10)
Beginnings of criticism	259	(3)
Northern Italy	262	(29)
The iconographic manual comes into being	263	(7)
Lomazzo: The system	270	(15)
Lomazzo: A doctrine of styles	285	(6)
Rebelling Against the Rules: The Last Phase of Renaissance Art Theory	291	(19)
Poetics and Philosophy	291	(4)
Zuccari: The theory of disegno	295	(15)
Classicism and Academy	310	(69)
Foundations	310	(20)
New Institutions	310	(20)
The Academy in Paris: Rule of Rules	330	(19)
Le Brun	330	(6)
``Les regles''	336	(8)
``Grand gout''	344	(5)
The Crisis of the Academy	349	(30)
Background	349	(3)
Roger de Piles	352	(3)
``Le debat sur le coloris''	355	(4)
Modernity	359	(6)
Poussinists and Rubenists	365	(14)
Bibliographical Essay	379	(12)
Index	391