The absolute artist : the historiography of a concept / Catherine M. Soussloff.
Analyzing the myth of the artist in western culture, this work considers the social construction of the artist from the 15th century to the present.
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Minneapolis, Minn. :
University of Minnesota Press,
[1997]
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Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1. On the Threshold of Historiography: Biography, Artists, Genre
- 2. The Artist in Nature: Renaissance Biography
- 3. The Artist in Culture: Kulturwissenschaft from Burckhardt to Warburg
- 4. The Artist in History: The Viennese School of Art History
- 5. The Artist in Myth: Early Psychoanalysis and Art History
- 6. The Artist in the Text: Rhetorics in the Myth of the Artist
- Notes
- Index.