Flesh and the Ideal: Winckelmann and the Origins of Art History
Alex Potts • Yale University Press • ISBN-13 978‑0300058130
Flesh and the Ideal: Winckelmann and the Origins of Art History
Alex Potts • Yale University Press
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ISBN-10: 0300058136 · ISBN-13: 978‑0300058130 · 1994 · 1st Edition
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Alex Potts provides a rigorous examination of Johann Joachim Winckelmann, the eighteenth-century scholar widely regarded as the founder of modern art history. By analyzing the tension between Winckelmann’s aesthetic ideals and his preoccupation with the physical body, the text situates his foundational writings within the broader intellectual landscape of the Enlightenment and the emergence of Neoclassicism.
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