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Hegel's art history and the critique of modernity
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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.
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Hegel's art history and the critique of modernity, Beat Wyss
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- Title
- Hegel's art history and the critique of modernity
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Beat Wyss
- Publisher
- Cambridge Univ. Press
- Released
- 1999
- ISBN10
- 0521592119
- ISBN13
- 9780521592116
- Series
- Res monographs on anthropology and aesthetics
- Category
- Philosophy
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- 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.