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Analyzing the myth of the artist in western culture, this work considers the social construction of the artist from the 15th century to the present.

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On the threshold of historiography - biography, artists, genre; the artist in nature - Renaissance biography; the artist in culture - Kulturwissenschaft from Burckhardt to Warburg; the artist in history - the Viennese School of art history; the artist in myth - early psychoanalysis and art history; the artist in the text - rhetorics in the myth of the artist.

Absolute Artist The Historiography of a Concept

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      Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
      Publication Date: 01/03/1997
      ISBN13: 9780816628971, 978-0816628971
      ISBN10: 0816628971

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Analyzing the myth of the artist in western culture, this work considers the social construction of the artist from the 15th century to the present.

      Table of Contents
      On the threshold of historiography - biography, artists, genre; the artist in nature - Renaissance biography; the artist in culture - Kulturwissenschaft from Burckhardt to Warburg; the artist in history - the Viennese School of art history; the artist in myth - early psychoanalysis and art history; the artist in the text - rhetorics in the myth of the artist.

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