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

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Author: Potts, Alex
ISBN: 9780300087369

by Potts, Alex

ISBN13:
9780300087369
ISBN10:
0300087365
Format: Paperback
Copyright: 2000-10-11
Publisher: Yale University Press
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Summary

This is the first intellectual biography in English of Johann Joachim Winckelmann, one of the most famous eighteenth-century German philosophers & aestheticians, considered by many to be the father of modern art history.

Acknowledgements

vii

Introduction

(10)

Inventing a History of Art

(36)

The Significance of Winckelmann's History

(12)

A New Paradigm

(10)

History as System

(14)

Fact and Fantasy

(20)

A Lover's Discourse

(3)

Rise and Decline

(4)

Dichotomies of Freedom

(6)

Presences and Absences

(7)

Style

(46)

The High Style and the Beautiful Style

(5)

Precedents

(9)

Visual Facts

(15)

Verbal and Visual

(5)

The Rhetoric of the Image

101

(12)

Beauty and Sublimity

113

(32)

The Sex of the Sublime

113

(5)

Beautiful Masculinity

118

(14)

The Sublime Fetish

132

(13)

Ideal Bodies

145

(37)

The Greek Ideal and the Ideal Ego

145

(10)

Oneness and Ideal Beauty

155

(10)

The Body of Narcissus

165

(8)

Nightmare and Utopia

173

(9)

Freedom and Desire

182

(40)

A Free Subject

182

(6)

Politics, Patronage, and Identity

188

(13)

Friendship and Desire

201

(16)

Endings

217

(5)

Afterlife

222

(32)

Jacobin Politics and Victorian Aestheticism

222

(1)

Revolutionary Heroes

223

(15)

Modernity and its Discontents

238

(16)

Frequently Cited Sources

254

(2)

Notes

256

(32)

Photographic Credits

288

(1)

Index

289

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