Chaos and cosmos : on the image in aesthetics and art history

Chaos and cosmos : on the image in aesthetics and art history /

Writing in 1940, the prominent German art historian Erwin Panofsky asked, "How, then, is it possible to build up art history as a respectable scholarly discipline, if its objects come into being by an irrational and subjective process?" In Chaos and Cosmos, Karen Lang addresses the power o...

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Main Author: Lang, Karen Ann
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2006.
Subjects:
1800-1999
Geschichte 1800-1950.
Art criticism > Germany > History > 19th century.
Art criticism > Germany > History > 20th century.
Aesthetics, German > 19th century.
Aesthetics, German > 20th century.
Object (Aesthetics) > History > 19th century.
Object (Aesthetics) > History > 20th century.
20.01 history of the art sciences.
PHILOSOPHY > Aesthetics.
Aesthetics, German
Art criticism
Object (Aesthetics)
Kunstkritik
Ästhetik
Kunstgeschiedenis (wetenschap)
Esthetica.
Chaos.
Critique d'art > Allemagne > 19e siècle.
Critique d'art > Allemagne > 20e siècle.
Objet (esthétique) > 19e siècle.
Objet (esthétique) > 20e siècle.
Germany
Deutschland
Duitsland.
History
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Illustrations
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: Theory Begins with Looking
  • Chapter One. Points of View in Panofsky's Early Theoretical Essays
  • Chapter Two. The Dialectics of Decay: Rereading the Kantian Subject
  • Chapter Three. Goethe, Warburg, Cassirer: Symbolic Form as Orientation
  • Chapter Four. The Experience of Time and the Time of History: Riegl's Age Value and Benjamin's Aura
  • Conclusion: Encountering the Image
  • Afterword: Toward an Aesthetic Way of Knowing
  • Notes
  • Index

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