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Flesh and the Ideal: Winckelmann and the Origins of Art History
Price: $13.98
Publisher: Yale University Press : October 2000
Seller ID: 465250
ISBN-13: 9780300087369
Binding: Trade Paperback
Condition: Used - Very Good
Johann Joachim Winckelmann (1717-1768), one of the most important figures ever to have written about art, is considered by many to be the father of modern art history. This book is an intellectual biography of Winckelmann that discusses his magnum opus, History of the Art of Antiquity, in the context of his life and work in Germany and in Rome in the eighteenth century. Alex Potts analyzes Winckelmann's eloquent account of the aesthetic and imaginative Greek ideal in art, an account that focuses on the political and homoerotic sexual content that gave the antique ideal male nude its larger res...
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