Theory and Philosophy of Art: Style, Artist, and Society
Theory and Philosophy of Art: Style, Artist, and Society
Schapiro, Meyer
product information
Condition: New, UPC: 9780807613573, Publication Date: Tue, September 1, 1998, Type: Paperback ,
join & start selling
description
4This fourth volume of Professor Meyer Schapiro's Selected Papers contains his most important writings--some well-known and others previously unpublished - on the theory and philosophy of art. Schapiro's highly lucid arguments, graceful prose, and extraordinary erudition guide readers through a rich variety of fields and issues: the roles in society of the artist and art, of the critic and criticism; the relationships between patron and artist, psychoanalysis and art, and philosophy and art. Adapting critical methods from such wide-ranging fields as anthropology, linguistics, philosophy, biology, and other sciences, Schapiro appraises fundamental semantic terms such as organic style, pictorial style, field and vehicle, and form and content; he elucidates eclipsed intent in a well-known text by Freud on Leonardo da Vinci, in another by Heidegger on Vincent van Gogh. He reflects on the critical methodology of Bernard Berenson, and on the social philosophy of art in the writings of both Diderot and the nineteenth century French artist/historian Eugene Fromentin. Throughout all of his writings, Meyer Schapiro provides us with a means of ordering our past that is reasoned and passionate, methodical and inventive. In so doing, he revitalizes our faith in the unsurpassed importance of both critical thinking and creative independence.
reviews

Be the first to write a review

member goods

No member items were found under this heading.

notems store

listens & views

TINTED WINDOWS

by TINTED WINDOWS

COMPACT DISC

out of stock

$10.75

RED SUPERGIANT

by MISS LAVA

COMPACT DISC

out of stock

$29.99

EXTRAORDINARY AVERAGE JOE (AUS)

by KOOLTA

COMPACT DISC

out of stock

$22.99

LUDWIG-L'IMAGINAIRE-LE BATEAU I (FRA)

by FERRE,LEO

COMPACT DISC

out of stock

$20.99

Return Policy

All sales are final

Shipping

No special shipping considerations available.
Shipping fees determined at checkout.