Winckelmann and the Invention of Antiquity: History and Aesthetics in the Age of Altertumswissenschaft - Couverture rigide

Harloe, Katherine

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0199695849 ISBN 13 : 9780199695843

Editeur : OUP Oxford, 2013

Synopsis

This volume provides a new perspective on the emergence of the modern study of antiquity, Altertumswissenschaft, in eighteenth-century Germany through an exploration of debates that arose over the work of the art historian Johann Joachim Winckelmann between his death in 1768 and the end of the century. Winckelmann's eloquent articulation of the cultural and aesthetic value of studying the ancient Greeks, his adumbration of a new method for studying ancient artworks, and his provision of a model of cultural-historical development in terms of a succession of period styles, influenced both the public and intra-disciplinary self-image of classics long into the twentieth century. Yet this area of Winckelmann's Nachleben has received relatively little attention compared with the proliferation of studies concerning his importance for late eighteenth-century German art and literature, for historians of sexuality, and his traditional status as a 'founder figure' within the academic disciplines of classical archaeology and the history of art.Harloe restores the figure of Winckelmann to classicists' understanding of the history of their own discipline and uses debates between important figures, such as Christian Gottlob Heyne, Friedrich August Wolf, and Johann Gottfried Herder, to cast fresh light upon the emergence of the modern paradigm of classics as Altertumswissenschaft: the multi-disciplinary, comprehensive, and historicizing study of the ancient world.

A propos du livre

Revue de presse :

This learned book is well worth reading and pondering. It examines one of the central figures in the transition from eighteenth century antiquarianism to nineteenth century Altertumswissenschaft: Johann Joachim Winckelmann. (Bernie Frischer, The Classical Journal)

meticulously researched ... This is a book of considerable learning. (Michael Squire, British Journal of Aesthetics)

We are accordingly indebted to Harloe's well-informed book for many new insights on the early reception of Winckelmann in Germany. (H. B. Nisbet, German Quarterly)

Biographie de l'auteur :

Katherine Harloe is a Lecturer in Classics at the University of Reading.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: OUP Oxford
• Date d'édition: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0199695849
• ISBN 13: 9780199695843
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 304