The invisible masterpiece / Hans Belting ; [English translation by Helen Atkins].
"The Invisible Masterpiece is a history of the modern work of art, from its emergence c.1800 through to the 1960s. Before 1800, art-works were either imitative (portraits, landscapes) or narrative (history painting), but under the impact of Romantic modernity the physical object - a painted can...
Saved in:
| Main Author: | |
|---|---|
| Other Authors: | |
| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English German |
| Published: |
Chicago :
University of Chicago Press,
2001.
|
| Subjects: | |
| Online Access: | Contributor biographical information |
Table of Contents:
- 1. The Farewell to Apollo
- 2. Raphael's Dream
- 3. Shipwrecked
- 4. Paris: A City and a Museum
- 5. The Artists' Curse
- 6. A Hieroglyph of Art
- 7. In the Labyrinth of Modernity
- 8. Escape Routes to Freedom
- 9. The Inferno of Perfection
- 10. The Cathedral of Memory
- 11. An Invisible Masterpiece
- 12. The Fate of an Art Fetish
- 13. The Dream of Absolute Art
- 14. The Fiction of Absolute Art
- 15. The Absolute Artist
- 16. American Modernism
- 17. The Call to Freedom
- 18. The Work as Memory.