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Record Nr.

UNINA9910793950403321

Autore

O'Donnell C. Oliver (Charles Oliver), <1983->

Titolo

Meyer Schapiro’s Critical Debates : Art Through a Modern American Mind / / C. Oliver O'Donnell

Pubbl/distr/stampa

University Park, Pennsylvania : , : The Pennsylvania State University Press, , [2019]

©2019

ISBN

0-271-08554-1

0-271-08556-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xii, 253 pages) : illustrations

Disciplina

701.18

Soggetti

ART / Criticism & Theory

Art criticism

Art

Art - History

Art criticism - United States - History - 20th century

History

United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

1929, formalism and perception : from Löwy and Fry to Wertheimer and Gombrich -- 1936, reviewing Kunstwissenschaft : foreshadowing the two cultures debate -- 1941, science and the dialectic : Raphael and Dewey, Courbet and Picasso -- 1947, the "aesthetic attitude," Coomaraswamy's metaphysics, and the Westernness of art's history -- 1956, pragmatic psychoanalysis and the confirmation of Woman I -- 1961, debating Berenson with Berlin : two concepts of art-historical liberty -- 1968, Heidegger and Goldstein : Van Gogh's Shoes and the liabilities of Ekphrasis -- 1973, Worlds and pictures : a color field critique of structuralist semiotics.

Sommario/riassunto

"Explores the life, career, and intellectual debates of art historian Meyer Schapiro, who worked at the nexus of artistic and intellectual practice and from there confronted some of the twentieth century's most abiding questions"--