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  1. Edgar Wind and modern art
    in defense of marginal anarchy
    Author: Thomas, Ben
    Published: 2022
    Publisher:  Bloomsbury Visual Arts, London ; New York ; Oxford ; New Delhi ; Sydney

    "This book presents the first comprehensive study of the philosopher and art historian Edgar Wind's critique of modern art. The first student of Erwin Panofsky, and a close associate of Aby Warburg, Edgar Wind was unusual among the 'Warburgians' for... more

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    Freie Universität Berlin, Universitätsbibliothek
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    "This book presents the first comprehensive study of the philosopher and art historian Edgar Wind's critique of modern art. The first student of Erwin Panofsky, and a close associate of Aby Warburg, Edgar Wind was unusual among the 'Warburgians' for his sustained interest in modern art, together with his support for contemporary artists. This culminated in his respected and influential book Art and Anarchy (1963), which seemed like a departure from his usual scholarly work on the iconography of Renaissance art. Based on extensive archival research and bringing to light previously unpublished lectures, this book reveals the extent and seriousness of Wind's thinking about modern art, and how it was bound up with theories about art and knowledge that he had developed during the 1920s and 30s. Wind's ideas are placed in the context of a closely connected international cultural milieu consisting of some of the leading artists and thinkers of the Twentieth Century. In particular, the book discusses in detail his friendships with three significant artists: Pavel Tchelitchew, Ben Shahn and R. B. Kitaj. In the process, the existence of an alternative to the prevailing formalist approach of Alfred Barr and Clement Greenberg to modern art, based on the enduring importance of the symbol, is revealed"--

     
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    Source: Philologische Bibliothek, FU Berlin
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    ISBN: 9781350284272; 9781501341755
    RVK Categories: LH 63699
    Edition: Paperback edition
    Subjects: Ästhetik; Moderne; Kunstkritik; Kunst
    Other subjects: Wind, Edgar (1900-1971); Kitaj, R. B. (1932-2007); Tchelitchew, Pavel (1898-1957); Shahn, Ben (1898-1969); Wind, Edgar / 1900-1971 / Aesthetics; Art, Modern / 20th century
    Scope: xi, 253 Seiten, Illustrationen, 24 cm
  2. Edgar Wind and modern art
    in defense of marginal anarchy
    Author: Thomas, Ben
    Published: 2022
    Publisher:  Bloomsbury Visual Arts, London ; New York ; Oxford ; New Delhi ; Sydney

    "This book presents the first comprehensive study of the philosopher and art historian Edgar Wind's critique of modern art. The first student of Erwin Panofsky, and a close associate of Aby Warburg, Edgar Wind was unusual among the 'Warburgians' for... more

    Location:
    Universitätsbibliothek Würzburg
    Inter-library loan:
    Unlimited inter-library loan, copies and loan

     

    "This book presents the first comprehensive study of the philosopher and art historian Edgar Wind's critique of modern art. The first student of Erwin Panofsky, and a close associate of Aby Warburg, Edgar Wind was unusual among the 'Warburgians' for his sustained interest in modern art, together with his support for contemporary artists. This culminated in his respected and influential book Art and Anarchy (1963), which seemed like a departure from his usual scholarly work on the iconography of Renaissance art. Based on extensive archival research and bringing to light previously unpublished lectures, this book reveals the extent and seriousness of Wind's thinking about modern art, and how it was bound up with theories about art and knowledge that he had developed during the 1920s and 30s. Wind's ideas are placed in the context of a closely connected international cultural milieu consisting of some of the leading artists and thinkers of the Twentieth Century. In particular, the book discusses in detail his friendships with three significant artists: Pavel Tchelitchew, Ben Shahn and R. B. Kitaj. In the process, the existence of an alternative to the prevailing formalist approach of Alfred Barr and Clement Greenberg to modern art, based on the enduring importance of the symbol, is revealed"--

     
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    Content information
    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    ISBN: 9781350284272; 9781501341755
    RVK Categories: LH 63699
    Edition: Paperback edition
    Subjects: Ästhetik; Moderne; Kunstkritik; Kunst
    Other subjects: Wind, Edgar (1900-1971); Kitaj, R. B. (1932-2007); Tchelitchew, Pavel (1898-1957); Shahn, Ben (1898-1969); Wind, Edgar / 1900-1971 / Aesthetics; Art, Modern / 20th century
    Scope: xi, 253 Seiten, Illustrationen, 24 cm