Georg Simmel: Rembrandt (eBook, PDF)

An Essay in the Philosophy of Art
Redaktion: Scott, Alan; Staubmann, Helmut

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

First published in 1916 in German, this important work has never been translated into English--until now. Simmel attacks such questions as "What do we see in a work of Art?" and "What do Rembrandt's portraits tell us about human nature?" This is a major work by a major thinker concerning one of the world's most important painters.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 198
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Februar 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781135773762
• Artikelnr.: 38262807

Autorenporträt

Georg Simmel (1858-1918) was a German sociologist of high regard. His most famous work, which Routledge also publishes, is The Philosophy of Money. Alan Scott is Professor and Helmut Staubmann is Associate Professor, both in the Department of Sociology at the University of Innsbruck, Austria.

Inhaltsangabe

Editor's Introduction: Georg Simmel on Rembrandt: Understanding the Human
Beyond Naturalism and ConventionalismChapter One: The Expression of Inner
LifeContinuity of Life and the Movement of ExpressionBeing and Becoming in
a PortraitThe Series of Portraits and DrawingsReserve and Openness of the
Portrait FigureThe Circle in the Depiction of a PersonThe Animation of the
PortraitSubjective Realism and the Self-PortraitArtistic ProcreationLife's
Past in the PaintingThe Representation of MovementThe Unity of the
CompositionClarity and DetailingLife and FormChapter Two: Individualization
and the GeneralType and RepresentationTwo Concepts of LifeObservations on
the Individuality of Form and on PantheismDeathCharacterBeauty and
PerfectionThe Individuality of the Renaissance and of RembrandtTypes of
GeneralityThe Art of Old AgeThe Aspatial GazeMoodHuman Fate and the
Heraclitean CosmosChapter Three: Religious ArtObjective and Subjective
Religion in ArtPietyConcrete Existence and Religious LifeThe Type of Unity
in the Religious PaintingsIndividual Religiosity, Mystique and
CalvinismInner QualityReligious-artistic CreationLight: Its Individuality
and ImmanenceExcursus: What do we see in a work of art?Dogmatic ContentsIn
ConclusionThe Capacity to Create and to FashionAntitheses in ArtAppendix