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Hegel's Art History and the Critique of Modernity

Hegel's Art History and the Critique of Modernity

Wyss, B

Wyss, B

en
1999
Boek; 288 p ill
Met bibliografie - Vertaling van Duitse editie: Trauer der Vollendung
Located in: Kunsttheorie B-WY-25
VUBIS: 2:618

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Bevat een kritische analyse van Hegels kunsttheorie, analoog aan zijn geschiedsfilosofie en van zijn opvolgers die het dialectisch model adopteerden. - In this study, Beat Wyss provides a critical analysis of Hegel's theories of art history. Analogous to his philosophy of history, Hegel viewed the history of art in dialectical terms: With its origins in the Ancient Near East, Western art culminated in Classical Greece, but began its decline already in the Hellenistic period. Yet, as Wyss posits, art refuses its programmed demise. He highlights the political dimension of this contradiction, showing the implications of theories that subordinate art to the will of absolute rule