Hegel's Art History and the Critique of Modernity
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- Author: Beat Wyss, Universität Stuttgart
- Date Published: June 2008
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- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521066808
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In this study, Beat Wyss provides a critical analysis of Hegel's theories of art history. Analogous to his philosophy of history, Hegel viewed the history of art in dialectical terms: With its origins in the Ancient Near East, Western art culminated in Classical Greece, but began its decline already in the Hellenistic period. Yet, as Wyss posits, art refuses its programmed demise. He highlights the political dimension of this contradiction, showing the implications of theories that subordinate art to the will of absolute rule.
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"These are essential source books and, althouggh very different, are fine examples of perceptive and concrete analysis written in highly readable styles." The Art Book Jan 2002
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- Date Published: June 2008
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521066808
- length: 308 pages
- dimensions: 229 x 152 x 16 mm
- weight: 0.54kg
- contains: 65 b/w illus.
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Part I. Hegel's Last Walk Through his Museum:
1. Morning: oriental symbolism
2. Noon
3. Evening: the West
4. The fourth chapter of the dialectics
Part II. An Unholy Alliance:
5. Degeneration
6. Decline
7. Loss of the centre
8. Decadence
Part III. Reason Outschemed: Epilogue.
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