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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Ithaca :
Cornell University Press,
2006.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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