Sachgebiete

Beschreibung:

XXIX, 345 S. Originalleinen.

Bemerkung:

Ein gutes und sauberes Exemplar. - Fifty years ago we were told that the subjects of pictures were of no importance; all that mattered was the form (then called ?significant form?) and the colour. This was a curious aberration of criticism, because all artists, from the cave painters onwards, had attached great importance to their subject matter; Giotto, Giovanni Bellini, Titian, Michelangelo, Poussin or Rembrandt would have thought it incredible that so absurd a doctrine could have gained currency. In the 1930s, the tide began to turn. In art history the pioneer of this change was a man of original genius named Aby Warburg, and although he himself, for various reasons, left only fragments of his prodigious learning, his influence produced a group of scholars who discovered, in the subjects of mediaeval and renaissance art, layer upon layer of meaning that had been almost completely overlooked by the ?formalist? critics of the preceding generation. One of them, Erwin Panofsky, was unquestionably the greatest art historian of his time. ISBN 0719531039