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Author O'Donnell, C. Oliver (Charles Oliver), 1983- author.

Title Meyer Schapiro's critical debates : art through a modern American mind / C. Oliver O'Donnell
Published University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2019]
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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 254 pages) : illustrations
Contents 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
Summary "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"-- Provided by publisher
Analysis Abstract Expressionism
Art Historiography
Cold War
Cultural Cold War
Formalism
Intellectual History
Marxist
Meyer Schapiro
Modernism
New York Intellectuals
Psychoanalysis
Semiotics
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 214-244) and index
Subject Schapiro, Meyer, 1904-1996.
SUBJECT Schapiro, Meyer, 1904-1996
Schapiro, Meyer, 1904-1996 fast
Subject Art criticism -- United States -- History -- 20th century
Art -- History.
art history.
ART -- Criticism & Theory.
Art
Art criticism
United States
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780271085562
0271085568