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 |
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Art Historiography |
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Cold War |
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Cultural Cold War |
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Formalism |
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Intellectual History |
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Marxist |
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Meyer Schapiro |
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Modernism |
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New York Intellectuals |
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Psychoanalysis |
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Semiotics |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 214-244) and index |
Subject |
Schapiro, Meyer, 1904-1996.
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SUBJECT |
Schapiro, Meyer, 1904-1996
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Schapiro, Meyer, 1904-1996 fast |
Subject |
Art criticism -- United States -- History -- 20th century
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Art -- History.
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art history.
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ART -- Criticism & Theory.
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Art
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Art criticism
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United States
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Genre/Form |
History
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Form |
Electronic book
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ISBN |
9780271085562 |
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0271085568 |
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