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Winckelmann and the notion of aesthetic education

Author: Jeffrey Morrison
Publisher: Oxford [England] ; New York : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1996.
Series: Oxford modern languages and literature monographs.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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This book examines the pivotal role of Johann Joachim Winckelmann as an arbiter of classical taste. It identifies the key features of Winckelmann's treatment of classical beauty, particularly in his famous descriptions, and investigates his teaching of the appreciation of beauty. The work identifies and examines the point at which theory and descriptive method are merged in a practical attempt to offer aesthetic
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Morrison, Jeffrey.
Winckelmann and the notion of aesthetic education.
Oxford [England] ; New York : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1996
(OCoLC)604671641
Named Person: Johann Joachim Winckelmann; Johann Wolfgang von Goethe; Johann Winckelmann; Johann Winckelmann; Johann Joachim Winckelmann; Johann Joachim Winckelmann; Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Jeffrey Morrison
ISBN: 0198159129 9780198159124
OCLC Number: 33664411
Description: 274 p. ; 23 cm.
Contents: 1. Italian Travel in the Eighteenth Century: The Roman Scene Around 1750 --
2. Johann Joachim Winckelmann and Roman Ingarden on the Reception of Works of Art --
3. Johann Hermann Von Riedesel --
4. Johann Jacob Volkmann --
5. Conclusion: Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe.
Series Title: Oxford modern languages and literature monographs.
Responsibility: Jeffrey Morrison.
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Abstract:

This book examines the pivotal role of Johann Joachim Winckelmann as an arbiter of classical taste. It identifies the key features of Winckelmann's treatment of classical beauty, particularly in his famous descriptions, and investigates his teaching of the appreciation of beauty. The work identifies and examines the point at which theory and descriptive method are merged in a practical attempt to offer aesthetic education. The publications and correspondence of Winckelmann's pupils are offered as criteria for judging the success of his mission, eventually casting doubt upon his concept of aesthetic education, both in theory and in practice.

The final chapter of the book is concerned with Goethe's reception of Winckelmann, which shows unusual sensitivity to his work's aesthetic core. It also shows how Goethe's own writing on Italy reveals a process of independent aesthetic education akin to Winckelmann's and distinct from his pupils. The work is founded in close textual analysis but also covers the principles of aesthetic education, the value of the Grand Tour and the role of Rome in the European imagination.

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