For the Love of Beauty - Art History and the Moral Foundations of Aesthetic Judgment

Informationen zum Autor Arthur Pontynen Zusammenfassung For most of the last century the methodology of art history has followed a positivist approach, emphasizing form and style, fact and history as the means of studying works of art Inhaltsverzeichnis 1: Introduction; 2: Art History and the Cultural Amnesia of Modernism and Postmodernism; 3: Classicism: The Nature of Beauty, the Fragility of Goodness; 4: The Laocoön : The Challenge of Tragedy and the Metaphysics of Plotinus; 5: The Judeo-Christian Tradition: Aesthetics and Beauty Reconciled; 6: The Renaissance, Mannerism, and the Baroque: From a Quantative to a Quantative Universe; 7: The Modernist-Postmodernist Tradition: The Subjective-Objectivity of the “Enlightenment” and the Decline of Beauty; 8: Ways of Worldmaking: Nietzsche’s Rebirth of Tragedy; 9: Western Culture at the Crossroads: The History of Art and the Postmodern Eschaton; 10: Conclusion: Subject, Object and Responsible Freedom in the Pursuit of Beauty

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• Authors: Michael Charlton, Charlton Michael, Arthur Pontynen, Pontynen Arthur
• Publisher: Transaction Publishers
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.12.2005
• EAN: 9780765803016
• ISBN: 978-0-7658-0301-6
• No. of pages: 352
• Dimensions: 171 mm x 248 mm x 32 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > General, dictionaries; Theory of art, PHILOSOPHY / Aesthetics, ART / Criticism & Theory, Philosophy: aesthetics