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October 2004
6 x 9, 495 pp., 20 illus.
$38.95/£28.95 (CLOTH)
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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 Remarks51
Part OneWorldview55
IFirst Period: Art as Improvement of Nature Through Physical Beauty57
IISecond Period: Art as Improvement of Nature Through Spiritual Beauty67
IIIThird Period: Art as Reproduction of Transitory Nature95
Part TwoElements of the Work of Art107
IVPurpose109
VMotifs123
VIForm and Surface187
Draft of the Missing Conclusion269
Second Version: Lecture Notes of 1899
Introduction287
Part OneWorldview303
IFirst Period: Antique Anthropomorphic Polytheism to the Third Century C.E.307
IISecond Period: Christian Monotheism, 313-1520323
IIIThird Period: Natural-Scientific Worldview337
Part TwoElements341
IVMotifs and Purposes343
VForm and Surface395
Notes435
Illustrations445
Index477
 
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