| Description |
xiii, 528 pages : illustrations, plans, portraits ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
What is art history? -- Determinants of art historical investigation -- Genres of modern scholarship -- Connoisseurship. Guido da Siena and A.D. 1221 / Richard Offner -- Syntactical analysis. Geertgen tot Sint Jans' The legend of the relics of St. John the Baptist / Alois Riegl -- Formal change. Métamorphoses / Henri Focillon -- Period distinctions. Principles of art history / Heinrich Wölfflin -- Documentary studies in architectural history. S. Maria della Salute : scenographic architecture and the Venetian Baroque / Rudolf Wittkower -- Iconography and iconology. Jan van Eyck's 'Arnolfini' portrait / Erwin Panofsky -- The survival of mythological representations in early Christian and Byzantine art and their impact on Christian iconography / Kurt Weitzmann -- The dome of heaven / Karl Lehmann -- Art history and psychology. Light, form, and texture in fifteenth-century painting / E.H. Gombrich -- A psychotic artist of the Middle Ages / Ernst Kris -- Art history, society, and culture. Art and freedom in quattrocento Florence / Frederick Hartt -- Religious expression in Americanm architecture / Donald Drew Egbert -- Reflections on Classicism and Romanticism / Frederick Antal -- The Carolingian revival of early Christian architecture / Richard Krautheimer -- The new relationship to nature / Max Dvorák -- Renaissance and renascences / Erwin Panofsky -- Ad imaginem dei : the image of man in Medieval art / Gerhart B. Ladner |
| Summary |
A collection of essays that reflect the breadth of twentieth-century scholarship in art history. Kleinbauer has sought to illustrate the variety of methods scholars have developed for conveying the unfolding of the arts in the Western world |
| Analysis |
Art |
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Art |
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Visual arts Essays |
| Notes |
Second copy is xerographic copy. Canb. : ANU, 1988 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Subject |
Art -- History.
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| Genre/Form |
Art.
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| LC no. |
73153955 |
| ISBN |
0030782201 |
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