Theories of Art: 2. from Winckelmann to Baudelaire

by Moshe Barasch

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,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415926262
• ISBN13: 9780415926263
• Release Date: January 2001
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 432 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"