A01=Edgar Wind
Author_Edgar Wind
Category=AGA
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Product details
- ISBN 9780810106628
- Weight: 242g
- Dimensions: 138 x 215mm
- Publication Date: 31 Dec 1985
- Publisher: Northwestern University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Will works of the imagination ever regain the power they once had to challenge and mould society and the individual? This was the question posed by Edgar Wind's influential Reith Lectures delivered in 1960 and later expanded into his book Art and Anarchy. The book examines the various forces that have fashioned the modern view of the art, from mechanization and fear of intellect to connoisseurship and--perhaps the fundamental weakness of our age--the dispassionate acceptance of art. In the course of his discussion, Wind surveyed a wide range of topics in the history of painting, literature, music, and the plastic arts from the Renaissance to modern times.
Edgar Wind was born in Berlin, Germany. He was the first professor of art history at Oxford.
John Bayley is a Warton Professor of English at Oxford.
John Bayley is a Warton Professor of English at Oxford.
