Theories of Art
2. From Winckelmann to Baudelaire
By Moshe Barasch
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- ISBN: 978-0-415-92626-3
- Binding: Paperback
- Published by: Routledge
- Publication Date: 7th November 2000
- Pages: 400
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About the Book
This second book in Moshe Barasch's series on art theory surveys the development of the field from the early eighteenth to the mid-nineteenth centuries. During this period theories of the visual arts, particularly of painting and sculpture, underwent a radical transformation, as a result of which the intellectual foundations of our modern views on the arts were formed. Because this transformation can only be understood within the context of cultural, aesthetic, and philosophical developments of the period, Barasch surveys the opinions of the artists, as well as the doctrines of philosophers, poets and critics. He thus traces for the reader the entire development of modernism in art and art theory.
About the Author(s)
Moshe Barasch is Jack Cotton Professor of Architecture and Fine Arts at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and author of numerous books on art, including
The Language of Art: Studies in Interpretation (1997) and
Icon: Studies in the History of an Idea (1995).
