Historical Grammar of the Visual Arts - Table of Contents

October 2004
6 x 9, 495 pp., 20 illus.
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ISBN-10:
1-890951-45-5
ISBN-13:
978-1-890951-45-0

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From Zone Books:
Historical Grammar of the Visual Arts
Alois Riegl
Translated by Jacqueline E. Jung
Foreword by Benjamin Binstock

	Foreword: Alois Riegl, Monumental Ruin Why We Still Need to Read Historical Grammar of the Visual Arts Benjamin Binstock	11

	Translator's Preface: Ubersetzungsfragen Form, Communication, and Questions of Translating Riegl Jacqueline E. Jung	37

	*First Version: Book Manuscript of 1897-1898*

	Introductory Remarks	51

Part One	Worldview	55

I	First Period: Art as Improvement of Nature Through Physical Beauty	57

II	Second Period: Art as Improvement of Nature Through Spiritual Beauty	67

III	Third Period: Art as Reproduction of Transitory Nature	95

Part Two	Elements of the Work of Art	107

IV	Purpose	109

V	Motifs	123

VI	Form and Surface	187

	Draft of the Missing Conclusion	269

	*Second Version: Lecture Notes of 1899*

	Introduction	287

Part One	Worldview	303

I	First Period: Antique Anthropomorphic Polytheism to the Third Century C.E.	307

II	Second Period: Christian Monotheism, 313-1520	323

III	Third Period: Natural-Scientific Worldview	337

Part Two	Elements	341

IV	Motifs and Purposes	343

V	Form and Surface	395

	Notes	435

	Illustrations	445

	Index	477

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