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Historical grammar of the visual arts
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Historical grammar of the visual arts

Author: Alois Riegl; Benjamin Binstock
Publisher: New York : Zone Books, 2004.
Edition/Format: Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Alois Riegl; Benjamin Binstock
ISBN: 1890951455 9781890951450
OCLC Number: 52381277
Description: 495 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents: Aloïs Riegl, monumental ruin : why we still need to read Historical grammar of the visual arts / Benjamin Binstock - Übersetzungsfragen : form, communication, and questions of translating Riegl / Jacqueline E. Jung -- First version. Book manuscript of 1897-1898. First period : art as improvement of nature through physical beauty -- Second period : art as improvement of nature through spiritual beauty -- Third period : art as reproduction of transitory nature -- Purpose -- Motifs -- Form and surface -- Draft of the missing conclusion -- Second version. Lecture notes of 1899. First period : antique anthropomorphic polytheism to the Third Century C.E. -- Second period : Christian monotheism, 313-1520 -- Third period : natural-scientific worldview -- Motifs and purposes -- Form and surface.
Other Titles: Historische Grammatik der bildenden Künste.
Responsibility: Alois Riegl ; translated by Jacqueline E. Jung ; foreword by Benjamin Binstock.

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