Idols and Museum Pieces
The Nature of Sculpture, Its Historiography and Exhibition History 1640-1880
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Word Count
73,000 words, Guess
Page Count
292 pages
Identifiers
- ISBN-103110406918
- ISBN-139783110406917
- Library of Congress Control Number2016461027
- OCLC Control Number988932698
- Better World Books9783110406917
and 1 more
- Open LibraryOL29331255M
Classifications
- LCCNB1145.I36 2017
- LCCNB1145 .I36 2017
Description
The publication of Winckelmann's Geschichte der Kunst des Altertums in 1764 is considered as the defining moment in the genesis of the modern, scientific study of sculpture. It was a formalist and secular history, concentrating on the statue as a work of art, and studying sculpture in a museum setting, abstracting from its original religious, social or political functions. Other 17th- and 18th-century authors tried to understand those functions and why statues so often excited violent reactions ranging from adoration to abuse. The collection of essays aims to be a first investigation of the questions that arise out of an awareness that the origins of the Western historiography are much more complex than may appear from the perspective of Winckelmann's vision of the Graeco-Roman tradition.
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