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Flesh and the Ideal

- Winckelmann and the Origins of Art History

About Flesh and the Ideal

A biography of Johann Joachim Winckelmann, 18th-century German philosopher and aesthetician. Analyzing Winckelmann's magnum opus, "History of the Art of Antiquity", it explains the fundamental importance to art history of this account of the aesthetic and imaginative Greek ideal in art.

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  • Language:
  • English
  • ISBN:
  • 9780300087369
  • Binding:
  • Paperback
  • Pages:
  • 304
  • Published:
  • October 9, 2000
  • Dimensions:
  • 159x233x17 mm.
  • Weight:
  • 476 g.
Delivery: 1-2 weeks
Expected delivery: September 21, 2025

Description of Flesh and the Ideal

A biography of Johann Joachim Winckelmann, 18th-century German philosopher and aesthetician. Analyzing Winckelmann's magnum opus, "History of the Art of Antiquity", it explains the fundamental importance to art history of this account of the aesthetic and imaginative Greek ideal in art.

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