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Meyer Schapiro's critical debates : art through a modern American mind / C. Oliver O'Donnell.
LIBRA N7483.S292 O36 2019
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- O'Donnell, C. Oliver (Charles Oliver), 1983- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Schapiro, Meyer, 1904-1996.
- Schapiro, Meyer.
- Art criticism--United States--History--20th century.
- Art criticism.
- United States.
- History.
- Art--History.
- Art.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 253 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2019]
- Summary:
- "Explores the life, career, and intellectual debates of art historian Meyer Schapiro, who worked at the nexus of artistic and intellectual practice and from there confronted some of the twentieth century's most abiding questions"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- 1929, formalism and perception : from Löwy and Fry to Wertheimer and Gombrich
- 1936, reviewing Kunstwissenschaft : foreshadowing the two cultures debate
- 1941, science and the dialectic : Raphael and Dewey, Courbet and Picasso
- 1947, the "aesthetic attitude," Coomaraswamy's metaphysics, and the Westernness of art's history
- 1956, pragmatic psychoanalysis and the confirmation of Woman I
- 1961, debating Berenson with Berlin : two concepts of art-historical liberty
- 1968, Heidegger and Goldstein : Van Gogh's Shoes and the liabilities of Ekphrasis
- 1973, Worlds and pictures : a color field critique of structuralist semiotics.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 214-244) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780271084640
- 0271084642
- OCLC:
- 1096220022
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