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A biography of Johann Joachim Winckelmann, 18th-century German philosopher and aesthetician. Analyzing Winckelmann's magnum opus, "History of the Art of Antiquity", it explains the fundamental importance to art history of this account of the aesthetic and imaginative Greek ideal in art.

Flesh and the Ideal

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      Publisher: Yale University Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 10/11/2000 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780300087369, 978-0300087369
      ISBN10: 0300087365
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      Individual artists, art monographs The arts: general topics Theory of art

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      A biography of Johann Joachim Winckelmann, 18th-century German philosopher and aesthetician. Analyzing Winckelmann's magnum opus, "History of the Art of Antiquity", it explains the fundamental importance to art history of this account of the aesthetic and imaginative Greek ideal in art.

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