Edgar Wind and Modern Art - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Edgar Wind and Modern Art write by Ben Thomas. This book was released on 2020-12-10. Edgar Wind and Modern Art available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book presents the first comprehensive study of the philosopher and art historian Edgar Wind's critique of modern art. The first student of Erwin Panofsky, and a close associate of Aby Warburg, Edgar Wind was unusual among the 'Warburgians' for his sustained interest in modern art, together with his support for contemporary artists. This culminated in his respected and influential book Art and Anarchy (1963), which seemed like a departure from his usual scholarly work on the iconography of Renaissance art. Based on extensive archival research and bringing to light previously unpublished lectures, Edgar Wind and Modern Art reveals the extent and seriousness of Wind's thinking about modern art, and how it was bound up with theories about art and knowledge that he had developed during the 1920s and 30s. Wind's ideas are placed in the context of a closely connected international cultural milieu consisting of some of the leading artists and thinkers of the twentieth century. In particular, the book discusses in detail his friendships with three significant artists: Pavel Tchelitchew, Ben Shahn and R. B. Kitaj. In the process, the existence of an alternative to the prevailing formalist approach of Alfred Barr and Clement Greenberg to modern art, based on the enduring importance of the symbol, is revealed.
Art and Anarchy
Art and Anarchy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Art and Anarchy write by Edgar Wind. This book was released on 1969. Art and Anarchy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Edgar Wind and Modern Art
Edgar Wind and Modern Art - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Edgar Wind and Modern Art write by Ben Thomas. This book was released on 2020-12-10. Edgar Wind and Modern Art available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book presents the first comprehensive study of the philosopher and art historian Edgar Wind's critique of modern art. The first student of Erwin Panofsky, and a close associate of Aby Warburg, Edgar Wind was unusual among the 'Warburgians' for his sustained interest in modern art, together with his support for contemporary artists. This culminated in his respected and influential book Art and Anarchy (1963), which seemed like a departure from his usual scholarly work on the iconography of Renaissance art. Based on extensive archival research and bringing to light previously unpublished lectures, Edgar Wind and Modern Art reveals the extent and seriousness of Wind's thinking about modern art, and how it was bound up with theories about art and knowledge that he had developed during the 1920s and 30s. Wind's ideas are placed in the context of a closely connected international cultural milieu consisting of some of the leading artists and thinkers of the twentieth century. In particular, the book discusses in detail his friendships with three significant artists: Pavel Tchelitchew, Ben Shahn and R. B. Kitaj. In the process, the existence of an alternative to the prevailing formalist approach of Alfred Barr and Clement Greenberg to modern art, based on the enduring importance of the symbol, is revealed.
Art and Anarchy
Art and Anarchy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Art and Anarchy write by Edgar Wind. This book was released on 1985. Art and Anarchy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Will works of the imagination ever regain the power they once had to challenge and mould society and the individual? This was the question posed by Edgar Wind's influential Reith Lectures delivered in 1960 and later expanded into his book Art and Anarchy. The book examines the various forces that have fashioned the modern view of the art, from mechanization and fear of intellect to connoisseurship and--perhaps the fundamental weakness of our age--the dispassionate acceptance of art. In the course of his discussion, Wind surveyed a wide range of topics in the history of painting, literature, music, and the plastic arts from the Renaissance to modern times.
Hume and the Heroic Portrait
Hume and the Heroic Portrait - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Hume and the Heroic Portrait write by Edgar Wind. This book was released on 1986. Hume and the Heroic Portrait available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This is the second volume of Edgar Wind's selected papers, a companion to The Elegance of Symbols. Of all the scholars associated with the early development of the Warbur Institute Edgar Wind was the first to apply different theoretical principles to the study of English Art, above all in his early study of English portraiture, now a classic art history text. As the seminal essay, it gives title to the present volume, and is here translated into English for the first time. In this essay, which marked a change of direction in Wind's own development, he argues that two opposing styles of portraiture, exemplified in the art of Gainsborough and Reynolds, can be related to the different notions of humanity subscribed to by the philosophers David Hume and James Beattie. Other important studies, also reprinted here, make this volume an excellent resource to Wind's tremendous contributions to art history.
