Theory and Philosophy of Art: Style, Artist, and Society

Name: Theory and Philosophy of Art: Style, Artist, and Society
Brand: Persea Books
SKU: 9780807613573-V
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By Meyer Schapiro

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This fourth volume of Professor Meyer Schapiro's Selected Papers contains his most important writings--some well-known and others previously unpublished - on the theory and philosophy of art. Schapiro's highly lucid arguments, graceful prose, and extraordinary erudition guide readers through a rich variety of fields and issues: the roles in society of the artist and art, of the critic and criticism; the relationships between patron and artist, psychoanalysis and art, and philosophy and art. Adapting critical methods from such wide-ranging fields as anthropology, linguistics, philosophy, biology, and other sciences, Schapiro appraises fundamental semantic terms such as "organic style," "pictorial style", "field and vehicle," and "form and content"; he elucidates eclipsed intent in a well-known text by Freud on Leonardo da Vinci, in another by Heidegger on Vincent van Gogh. He reflects on the critical methodology of Bernard Berenson, and on the social philosophy of art in the writings of both Diderot and the nineteenth century French artist/historian Eugene Fromentin. Throughout all of his writings, Meyer Schapiro provides us with a means of ordering our past that is reasoned and passionate, methodical and inventive. In so doing, he revitalizes our faith in the unsurpassed importance of both critical thinking and creative independence.

Product details

Binding:: Paperback
Edition:: 4
Number of Pages:: 253
Release Date:: 1998-09-17
Publication Date:: 1998-09-30
Publisher:: Persea Books
Languages:: Original: English
ISBN10:: 0807613576
ISBN13:: 9780807613573
Weight:: 494 g
Height:: 151 cm
Width:: 226 cm
Thickness:: 23 cm

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