Hegel's Art History and the Critique of Modernity
Hegel's Art History and the Critique of Modernity
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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.
- This is 'Hegel for non-philosophers': such as art historians and cultural theorists
- Considers political implications of Hegel's aesthetics
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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
Product details
June 2008Paperback
9780521066808
308 pages
229 × 152 × 16 mm
0.54kg
65 b/w illus.
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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.
