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Abstraction and Empathy: A Contribution to the Psychology of Style (Elephant Paperbacks)
Wilhelm Worringer
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Description for Abstraction and Empathy: A Contribution to the Psychology of Style (Elephant Paperbacks)
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Wilhelm Worringer's landmark study in the interpretation of modern art, first published in 1908, has seldom been out of print. Its profound impact not only on art historians and theorists but also for generations of creative writers and intellectuals is almost unprecedented. Starting from the notion that beauty derives from our sense of being able to identify with an object, Worringer argues that representational art produces satisfaction from our objectified delight in the self, reflecting a confidence in the world as it is-as in Renaissance art. By contrast, the urge to abstraction, as exemplified by Egyptian, Byzantine, primitive, ... Read more
Wilhelm Worringer's landmark study in the interpretation of modern art, first published in 1908, has seldom been out of print. Its profound impact not only on art historians and theorists but also for generations of creative writers and intellectuals is almost unprecedented. Starting from the notion that beauty derives from our sense of being able to identify with an object, Worringer argues that representational art produces satisfaction from our objectified delight in the self, reflecting a confidence in the world as it is-as in Renaissance art. By contrast, the urge to abstraction, as exemplified by Egyptian, Byzantine, primitive, ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Ivan R. Dee
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Condition
New
Number of Pages
168
Place of Publication
Chicago, United States
ISBN
9781566631778
SKU
V9781566631778
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Ref
99-2
About Wilhelm Worringer
Wilhelm Worringer (1881-1965) was an art historian who lectured and taught at the universities of Bern, Koenigsberg, and Halle. Hilton Kramer is editor of The New Criterion.
Reviews for Abstraction and Empathy: A Contribution to the Psychology of Style (Elephant Paperbacks)
Worringer's little book is an enduring classic.
James Sloan Allen
Arts and Letters
James Sloan Allen
Arts and Letters