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This book is the first to focus on the extraordinary symbiosis between Critical Theory and other discourses of the visual in the first half of the twentieth century. In four extended case studies, Frederic J. Schwartz traces the way central concepts of the aesthetics later termed “Frankfurt School” were deeply rooted in contemporary developments in painting, photography, architecture, and film, as well as psychology, advertising, and the discipline of art history as it was practiced by figures such as Heinrich Wölfflin, Erwin Panofsky, Wilhelm Pinder, and Hans Sedlmayr.
Schwartz explores the shifting intersection between the history of art and the Frankfurt School and seeks to uncover its specific logic. He argues that artists, art historians, and Critical Theorists were united by a common project: that of exploring those aspects of modernity that could only be revealed by its visual products, of knowing the modern visually.
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Frederic J. Schwartz is reader in history of art, University College London, and author of The Werkbund: Design Theory and Mass Culture Before the First World War, published by Yale University Press.
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- PublisherYale University Press
- Publication date2005
- ISBN 10 030010829X
- ISBN 13 9780300108293
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages256
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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. xiv + 300 pp, topics - Fashion, Distraction, Simultaneityy, Mimesis, Afterword, notes, index. adorno, benjamin, wolflin, kracauser, ernst bloch, bauhaus etcetera. 6.5" x 9.5" red textured laminate boards, in unclipped black illustrated DJ. in acetate protector. Size: Large Octavo. Book. Seller Inventory # 008684
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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st. Cloth, xiii, 300 pages, illustrations; 25 cm. Tight, clean copy. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. A fine copy of the first printing. *** "This book is the first to focus on the extraordinary symbiosis between Critical Theory and other discourses of the visual in the first half of the twentieth century. In four extended case studies, Frederic J. Schwartz traces the way central concepts of the aesthetics later termed 'Frankfurt School' were deeply rooted in contemporary developments in painting, photography, architecture, and film, as well as psychology, advertising, and the discipline of art history as it was practiced by figures such as Heinrich W lfflin, Erwin Panofsky, Wilhelm Pinder, and Hans Sedlmayr. Schwartz explores the shifting intersection between the history of art and the Frankfurt School and seeks to uncover its specific logic. He argues that artists, art historians, and Critical Theorists were united by a common project: that of exploring those aspects of modernity that could only be revealed by its visual products, of knowing the modern visually. / FREDERIC J. SCHWARTZ is reader in history of art, University College London, and author of The Werkbund: Design Theory and Mass Culture Before the First World War, published by Yale University Press." - Publisher. *** CONTENTS: Fashion: Concepts of style in Wo lfflin and Adorno. Cathedrals and shoes. Novelty. The new Distraction: Walter Benjamin and the avant-garde. The blur at the centre. Book-space. Excursus I: architecture, photography and the avant-garde. Excursus II: architecture, photography and the baroque. Sight for sore eyes. Distraction. The eye of the expert. Dangerous games; Nonsimultaneity: Ernst Bloch and Wilhelm Pinder. Enigmas of arrival. History of nonsimultaneity. Philosophy of nonsimultaneity. Styles of nonsimultaneity. Politics of nonsimultaneity; Mimesis: Physiognomies of art in Kracauer, Sedlmayr, Benjamin and Adorno. Kracauer and Riegl: the problem. Panofsky and Sedlmayr: the options. For Sedlmayr I: his critique. Against Sedlmayr I: bad science. Excursus: Benjamin meets Sedlmayr halfway (but they do not meet). For Sedlmayr II: art historiography as modernism. Against Sedlmayr II: bad poetry, bad philosophy. The visible man. The invisible years. Physiognomies of art and language. Mimic behaviour. The psychophysical problem. Politics as Verhalten: revisiting the expert. Art as Verhaltensweise; Afterword: Seeing and time/Seeing in time. Size: 8vo. Collectible. Seller Inventory # 101166
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Hardcover. red cloth boards w/ black spine printing. black & pictorial dustjacket. 300 pgs w/ bw illustrations. content as follows: "Art historians and critics have long found inspiration in the works of Walter Benjamin, Theodor W. Adorno, Ernst Bloch and Siegfried Kracauer. Indeed, these figures have been crucial to the recent theoretical developments and self-consciousness in the discipline. For their part, the early German critical theorists had a sophisticated sense of the state of the visual arts at the time - from the work of the avant-garde to developments in the academic history of art. This book is the first to focus on the extraordinary symbiosis between critical theory and other discourses of the visual in the first half of the twentieth century. In four extended case studies, the book traces the way in which central concepts of the aesthetics later termed "Frankfurt School" were deeply rooted in contemporary developments in painting, photography, architecture and films as well as psychology, advertising and the discipline of art history as it was practised by figures such as Heinrich Wolfflin, Erwin Panofsky, Wilhelm Pinder and Hans Sedlmayr. By studying the emergence and importance of the concepts of 'fashion', 'distraction', 'non-simultaneity' and 'mimesis' in the work of the critical theorists, the book traces the shifting intersection between the history of art and the Frankfurt School and seeks to uncover its specific logic. It argues that artists, art historians and critical theorists were united by a common project: that of exploring those aspects of modernity that could only be revealed by its visual products, of knowing the modern visually." Near Fine light shelf wear to dustjacket. tight binding. clean pgs. Seller Inventory # 176239
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