Hegel's Art History and the Critique of Modernity

Klappentext A study of Hegel's conception of art history. Zusammenfassung This 1999 book provides an analysis of Hegel's art history. Analogous to his philosophy of history! Hegel viewed the history of art in dialectical terms: with its origins in the Ancient Near East! Western art culminated in Classical Greece! but began its decline already in the Hellenistic period. Yet modern art refuses to abide by Hegel's programmed demise. Inhaltsverzeichnis Part I. Hegel's Last Walk Through his Museum: 1. Morning: oriental symbolism; 2. Noon; 3. Evening: the West; 4. The fourth chapter of the dialectics; Part II. An Unholy Alliance: 5. Degeneration; 6. Decline; 7. Loss of the centre; 8. Decadence; Part III. Reason Outschemed: Epilogue.

Product details

• Authors: Beat Wyss
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 19.06.2008
• EAN: 9780521066808
• ISBN: 978-0-521-06680-8
• Dimensions: 178 mm x 255 mm x 17 mm
• Series: Print On Demand; Res Monographs in Anthropology; Print on Demand
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; PHILOSOPHY / Aesthetics