Principles of art history : the problem of the development of style in early modern art

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Principles of art history : the problem of the development of style in early modern art

Heinrich Wölfflin ; a new translation by Jonathan Blower ; essays by Evonne Levy and Tristan Weddigen

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Getty Research Institute, c2015

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Kunstgeschichtliche Grundbegriffe

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"This volume translates Heinrich Wölfflin, Kunstgeschichtliche Grundbegriffe. Das Problem der Stilentwicklung in der neueren Kunst (Munich: F. Bruckmann, 1915)--ECIP galley"--CIP data

Includes bibliographical references and index

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This book features a crystalline new translation of one of art history's most influential works-published on its one-hundredth anniversary. Principles of Art History by Heinrich Wolfflin (1864-1945), a revolutionary attempt to construct a science of art through the study of the development of style, has been a foundational work of formalist art history since it was first published in 1915. At once systematic and subjective, and remarkable for its compelling descriptions of works of art, Wolfflin's text has endured as an accessible yet rigorous approach to the study of style. Although Wolfflin applied his analysis to objects of early modern European art, Principles of Art History has been a fixture in the theoretical and methodological debates of the discipline of art history and has found a global audience. With translations in twenty-four languages and many reprints, Wolfflin's work may be the most widely read and translated book of art history ever. This new English translation, appearing one hundred years after the original publication, returns readers to Wolfflin's 1915 text and images. It also includes the first English translations of the prefaces and afterword that Wolfflin himself added to later editions. Introductory essays provide a historical and critical framework, referencing debates engendered by Principles in the twentieth century for a renewed reading of the text in the twenty-first.

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    Getty Center for the History of Art and the Humanities , Getty Research Institute for the History of Art and the Humanities , Distributed by the University of Chicago Press

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  • NCID
    BB20389872
  • ISBN
    • 9781606064528
  • LCCN
    2014039360
  • Country Code
    us
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Original Language Code
    ger
  • Place of Publication
    Los Angeles, California
  • Pages/Volumes
    357 p.
  • Size
    26 cm
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