Global Reception of Heinrich Wolfflin''s Principles of Art History - Studies in the History of Art, Volume 82

"Heinrich Wèolfflin's Principles of Art History was published in Munich in 1915 and was subsequently translated from German into twenty-two languages, becoming one of art history's most read and discussed works and a world classic in the humanities. This collection of essays examines the influence and criticism of Wèolfflin's classic in teaching and scholarship in the United States and in seventeen countries in Latin America, Europe, and South and East Asia. The composite is a global history of the discipline of art history over more than a century and a rare account of the reception of a single key work"--

About the author

Evonne Levy is Distinguished Professor of Early Modern Art at the University of Toronto. Tristan Weddigen is director of the Bibliotheca Hertziana and professor of the history of early modern art at the University of Zurich.

Summary

Perspectives on a book that changed ways of thinking and writing about art around the world

Product details

• Authors: Evonne Weddigen Levy
• Assisted by: Evonne Levy (Editor), Tristan Weddigen (Editor)
• Publisher: Yale University Press Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.07.2020
• EAN: 9780300250473
• ISBN: 978-0-300-25047-3
• No. of pages: 320
• Series: Studies in the History of Art Series; Studies in the History of Art
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Art > General, dictionaries