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Flesh and the Ideal

Winckelmann and the Origins of Art History

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Published: 31st August 1994
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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
Introductionp. 1
Inventing a History of Artp. 11
The Significance of Winckelmann's Historyp. 11
A New Paradigmp. 23
History as Systemp. 33
Fact and Fantasyp. 47
A Lover's Discoursep. 47
Rise and Declinep. 50
Dichotomies of Freedomp. 54
Presences and Absencesp. 60
Stylep. 67
The High Style and the Beautiful Stylep. 67
Precedentsp. 72
Visual Factsp. 81
Verbal and Visualp. 96
The Rhetoric of the Imagep. 101
Beauty and Sublimityp. 113
The Sex of the Sublimep. 113
Beautiful Masculinityp. 118
The Sublime Fetishp. 132
Ideal Bodiesp. 145
The Greek Ideal and the Ideal Egop. 145
Oneness and Ideal Identityp. 155
The Body of Narcissusp. 165
Nightmare and Utopiap. 173
Freedom and Desirep. 182
A Free Subjectp. 182
Politics Patronage and Identityp. 188
Friendship and Desirep. 201
Endingsp. 217
Afterlifep. 222
Jacobin Politics and Victorian Aestheticismp. 222
Revolutionary Heroesp. 223
Modernity and its Discontentsp. 238
Frequently Sited Sourcesp. 254
Notesp. 256
Photographic Creditsp. 288
Indexp. 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