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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
      Published 10 November 2000
      ISBN-13 9780300087369
      978-0300087369
      ISBN-10 0300087365
      Also in:
      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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