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History of Art is the first survey to recognize that the modernization and expansion of museum exhibition space over the …
"Ce livre irritera peut-être les bien-pensants. Quoi ! Ne pas tenir la photographie pour un art en tout point analogue …
A panoramic survey of the vast spectrum of modern and contemporary mathematics and the new philosophical possibilities they suggest.
A …
The world is configured in ways that seem systematically hospitable to life forms, especially the human race. Is this the …
The world is configured in ways that seem systematically hospitable to life forms, especially the …
A daunting book that, while does quite deep and sound philosophical analysis, does too much textual analysis which I'm not in the least interested in, but worth reading for the three chapters on Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle. In particular Aristotle.
In this text, Worringer identifies two opposing tendencies pervading the history of art from ancient …
This is the work that gave the final blow to classicism in visual art. German expressionism stems from the writing, and Wyndham Lewis, the founder of Vorticism, read Worringer's works and was hugely inspired by them.
By arguing for the case of Abstraction, the visual arts of the Western tradition were finally led back to their Platonic tradition from the Aristotelian classicism, and beyond that, by tracing the origin of forms in art to artistic will.
It is also a work that should be regarded as proto-psychoanalysis. Even if Freud had already founded the discipline named "psychoanalysis" by then, now it should be clear that psychoanalysis is a result of the confluence of several strands, one of which is the aesthetics in the tradition of Schiller and Nietzsche. Abstraction and Empathy fully employs the psychologizing tendency of the German thought of the days, and should be regarded as …
This is the work that gave the final blow to classicism in visual art. German expressionism stems from the writing, and Wyndham Lewis, the founder of Vorticism, read Worringer's works and was hugely inspired by them.
By arguing for the case of Abstraction, the visual arts of the Western tradition were finally led back to their Platonic tradition from the Aristotelian classicism, and beyond that, by tracing the origin of forms in art to artistic will.
It is also a work that should be regarded as proto-psychoanalysis. Even if Freud had already founded the discipline named "psychoanalysis" by then, now it should be clear that psychoanalysis is a result of the confluence of several strands, one of which is the aesthetics in the tradition of Schiller and Nietzsche. Abstraction and Empathy fully employs the psychologizing tendency of the German thought of the days, and should be regarded as a milestone that manifestly exhibits psychoanalytical arguments and speculations, and hence becomes implicitly metaphysical in its perspective by adopting a Hartmann-ish and Schellingian undertone.
In this text, Worringer identifies two opposing tendencies pervading the history of art from ancient times through the Enlightenment. He …
In this text, Worringer identifies two opposing tendencies pervading the history of art from ancient times through the Enlightenment. He …
This classic study by the eminent scholar Wilhelm Worringer connects the Gothic style with the civilization that produced the art …
This classic study by the eminent scholar Wilhelm Worringer connects the Gothic style with the civilization that produced the art …
Gregory's life culminated in his holding the office of pope (590 - 604). He is generally regarded as one of …
The world is configured in ways that seem systematically hospitable to life forms, especially the human race. Is this the …
The story of how Europe was converted to Christianity from 300AD until the barbarian Lithuanians finally capitulated at the astonishingly …
The story of how Europe was converted to Christianity from 300AD until the barbarian Lithuanians finally capitulated at the astonishingly …
“If you want to know about AI, read this book…it shows how a supposedly futuristic …
Reduce the trivialities and convert the book into a 30-page essay would be a good idea.
