Rembrandt : an essay in the philosophy of art

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Rembrandt : an essay in the philosophy of art

Georg Simmel ; translated and edited by Alan Scott and Helmut Staubmann ; with the assistance of K. Peter Etzkorn

Routledge, 2005

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Rembrandt : ein kunstphilosophischer Versuch

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Original published by: Leipzig : Kurt Wolff , 1916

Original title from: "Translator's note" (p. ix)

Includes bibliographical references (p. 167-174) and index

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hc ISBN 9780415926690

Description

First published in 1916 in German, this important work has never been translated into English--until now. Simmel attacks such questions as "What do we see in a work of Art?" and "What do Rembrandt's portraits tell us about human nature?" This is a major work by a major thinker concerning one of the world's most important painters.
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: pbk ISBN 9780415926706

Description

First published in 1916 in German, this important work has never been translated into English--until now. Simmel attacks such questions as "What do we see in a work of Art?" and "What do Rembrandt's portraits tell us about human nature?" This is a major work by a major thinker concerning one of the world's most important painters.

Table of Contents

Editor's Introduction: Georg Simmel on Rembrandt: Understanding the Human Beyond Naturalism and ConventionalismChapter One: The Expression of Inner LifeContinuity of Life and the Movement of ExpressionBeing and Becoming in a PortraitThe Series of Portraits and DrawingsReserve and Openness of the Portrait FigureThe Circle in the Depiction of a PersonThe Animation of the PortraitSubjective Realism and the Self-PortraitArtistic ProcreationLife's Past in the PaintingThe Representation of MovementThe Unity of the CompositionClarity and DetailingLife and FormChapter Two: Individualization and the GeneralType and RepresentationTwo Concepts of LifeObservations on the Individuality of Form and on PantheismDeathCharacterBeauty and PerfectionThe Individuality of the Renaissance and of RembrandtTypes of GeneralityThe Art of Old AgeThe Aspatial GazeMoodHuman Fate and the Heraclitean CosmosChapter Three: Religious ArtObjective and Subjective Religion in ArtPietyConcrete Existence and Religious LifeThe Type of Unity in the Religious PaintingsIndividual Religiosity, Mystique and CalvinismInner QualityReligious-artistic CreationLight: Its Individuality and ImmanenceExcursus: What do we see in a work of art?Dogmatic ContentsIn ConclusionThe Capacity to Create and to FashionAntitheses in ArtAppendix

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