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The demands of art. With an appendix, Toward an empirical theory of art.

By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Original language: German Series: Bollingen series ; 78.Publication details: [Princeton, N.J.], [Published for Bollingen Foundation by] Princeton University Press [1968]Description: xxiii, 258 pages illustrations (some color) 32 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Online version:: Demands of art.DDC classification:
  • 701
LOC classification:
  • N71 .R34
  • Q701 R
Contents:
[1.] The demands of art: The work of art and the model in nature: Cézanne: Mont Sainte-Victoire -- The work of the artistic imagination: Degas: Leaving the bath -- The artist's development: Giotto: Lamentation over the body of Christ and The death of Saint Francis -- The literary model and the work of art: Rembrandt: Joseph interprets Pharaoh's dreams -- Discord between form and content: Picasso: Guernica -- The struggle to understand art -- [2.] Appendix: Toward an empirical theory of art (1941) -- Part one: Basic concepts of description: Individual form ; Total configuration ; Composition.
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Item type Current library Shelving location Call number Status Date due Barcode
Book Carleton University, AVRC Open-stacks N71 .R34 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 16055000406

Translation of two unpublished manuscripts, Wie ein Kunstwerk gesehen sein will, and Empirische Kunstwissenschaft.

Includes bibliographical references.

[1.] The demands of art: The work of art and the model in nature: Cézanne: Mont Sainte-Victoire -- The work of the artistic imagination: Degas: Leaving the bath -- The artist's development: Giotto: Lamentation over the body of Christ and The death of Saint Francis -- The literary model and the work of art: Rembrandt: Joseph interprets Pharaoh's dreams -- Discord between form and content: Picasso: Guernica -- The struggle to understand art -- [2.] Appendix: Toward an empirical theory of art (1941) -- Part one: Basic concepts of description: Individual form ; Total configuration ; Composition.

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