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.
| Acknowledgements | |
| Introduction | p. 1 |
| Inventing a History of Art | p. 11 |
| The Significance of Winckelmann's History | p. 11 |
| A New Paradigm | p. 23 |
| History as System | p. 33 |
| Fact and Fantasy | p. 47 |
| A Lover's Discourse | p. 47 |
| Rise and Decline | p. 50 |
| Dichotomies of Freedom | p. 54 |
| Presences and Absences | p. 60 |
| Style | p. 67 |
| The High Style and the Beautiful Style | p. 67 |
| Precedents | p. 72 |
| Visual Facts | p. 81 |
| Verbal and Visual | p. 96 |
| The Rhetoric of the Image | p. 101 |
| Beauty and Sublimity | p. 113 |
| The Sex of the Sublime | p. 113 |
| Beautiful Masculinity | p. 118 |
| The Sublime Fetish | p. 132 |
| Ideal Bodies | p. 145 |
| The Greek Ideal and the Ideal Ego | p. 145 |
| Oneness and Ideal Identity | p. 155 |
| The Body of Narcissus | p. 165 |
| Nightmare and Utopia | p. 173 |
| Freedom and Desire | p. 182 |
| A Free Subject | p. 182 |
| Politics Patronage and Identity | p. 188 |
| Friendship and Desire | p. 201 |
| Endings | p. 217 |
| Afterlife | p. 222 |
| Jacobin Politics and Victorian Aestheticism | p. 222 |
| Revolutionary Heroes | p. 223 |
| Modernity and its Discontents | p. 238 |
| Frequently Sited Sources | p. 254 |
| Notes | p. 256 |
| Photographic Credits | p. 288 |
| Index | p. 289 |
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ISBN: 9780300058130
ISBN-10: 0300058136
Series: Renaissance in Europe Ser.: A Cultural Enquiry
Audience:
General
Format:
Hardcover
Language:
English
Number Of Pages: 352
Published: 31st August 1994
Publisher: Yale University Press
Dimensions (cm): 16.4 x 24.2
x 2.5
Weight (kg): 0.82