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ISBN: PB: 9780300087369

Yale University Press

October 2000

302 pp.

23.4x15.6 cm

43 illus.

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£21,00
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Flesh and the Ideal

Winkelmann and the Origins of Art History

A biography of Johann Joachim Winckelmann, 18th-century German philosopher and aesthetician. Analyzing Winckelmann's magnum opus, "History of the Art of Antiquity", it explains the fundamental importance to art history of this account of the aesthetic and imaginative Greek ideal in art.

About the Author

Alex Potts is collegiate professor, history of art, at the University of Michigan.