Art and Anarchy
Type
Book
Authors
ISBN 10
0810106620
ISBN 13
9780810106628
Category
Art Theory/Philosophy
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Publication Year
1985
Publisher
Pages
160
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. - from Amzon
Number of Copies
1
