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Flesh and the Ideal : Winckelmann and the Origins of Art History
Flesh and the Ideal Winckelmann and the Origins of Art History
Author: Alex Potts
This is the first intellectual biography in English of Johann Joachim Winckelmann (1717-1768), one of the most famous eighteenth-century German philosophers and aestheticians who is considered by many to be the father of modern art history. Analyzing Winckelmann`s magnum opus, History of the Art of Antiquity, Potts explains the fundamental impor...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780300087369
ISBN-10: 0300087365
Publication Date: 10/11/2000
Pages: 304
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Publisher: Yale University Press
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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