Art in Crisis - The Lost Center

The history of art from the early nineteenth century on- ward is commonly viewed as a succession of conflicts between innovatory and established styles that culminated in the formalism and aesthetic autonomy of high modernism

List of contents

1: Symptoms; I: New Master Problems; II: The Search For A Lost Style; III: The Isolation Of The Arts; IV: The Attack on Architecture; V: The Significance Of The Fragment; VI: Chaos Unleashed; Part Two : Diagnosis And Progress Of The Disease; VII: 'Analogia Morbi'; VIII: 'Autonomous' Man; IX: At The Origins Of The Present; X: Precursors of Modern Art; XI: The Three Artistic Revolutions of the Eighteenth Century; XII: From The Liberation Of Art To The Negation Of Art; III: Towards a Prognosis and a Final Judgement; XIII: An Evaluation of the Epoch; XIV: Towards an Evaluation of Modern art; XV: Modern art as the Fourth Phase of Western art; XVI: Today as the Turning Point in the History of Man; XVII: Prognosis; Postscript

About the author

Patricia Stuart-Macadam

Summary

The history of art from the early nineteenth century on- ward is commonly viewed as a succession of conflicts between innovatory and established styles that culminated in the formalism and aesthetic autonomy of high modernism

Product details

• Authors: Hans Sedlmayr, Sedlmayr Hans
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 02.10.2017
• EAN: 9781138518957
• ISBN: 978-1-138-51895-7
• No. of pages: 324
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; PHILOSOPHY / General, ART / History / General, Philosophy, History of art / art & design styles, History of Art, Brian Battershaw;Roger Kimbell