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Chaos and cosmos : on the image in aesthetics and art history /

Writing in 1940, the prominent German art historian Erwin Panofsky asked, "How, then, is it possible to build up art history as a respectable scholarly discipline, if its objects come into being by an irrational and subjective process?" In Chaos and Cosmos, Karen Lang addresses the power o...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Lang, Karen Ann
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2006.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Illustrations
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: Theory Begins with Looking
  • Chapter One. Points of View in Panofsky's Early Theoretical Essays
  • Chapter Two. The Dialectics of Decay: Rereading the Kantian Subject
  • Chapter Three. Goethe, Warburg, Cassirer: Symbolic Form as Orientation
  • Chapter Four. The Experience of Time and the Time of History: Riegl's Age Value and Benjamin's Aura
  • Conclusion: Encountering the Image
  • Afterword: Toward an Aesthetic Way of Knowing
  • Notes
  • Index