
Art and Anarchy
Edgar Wind(Author)
Northwestern University Press
3rd Edition
Will be published approx. on 31. December 1985
Book
Paperback/Softback
160 pages
978-0-8101-0662-8 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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Edition
Third Edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Evanston
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Edition type
New edition
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Illustrations
illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 213 mm
Width: 137 mm
Thickness: 23 mm
Weight
295 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8101-0662-8 (9780810106628)
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Person
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.