Neoplatonism and Western Aesthetics

Neoplatonism and Western Aesthetics
Author: Aphrodite Alexandrakis
Publisher: SUNY Press
Total Pages: 272
Release: 2002-01-01
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9780791452806

Shows how the aesthetic views of Plotinus and later Neoplatonists have played a role in the history of Western art.

Neoplatonism and Western Aesthetics

Neoplatonism and Western Aesthetics
Author: Aphrodite Alexandrakis
Publisher: SUNY Press
Total Pages: 280
Release: 2002-01-01
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9780791452790

Shows how the aesthetic views of Plotinus and later Neoplatonists have played a role in the history of Western art.

Neoplatonic Aesthetics

Neoplatonic Aesthetics
Author: Liana Cheney
Publisher: Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers
Total Pages: 310
Release: 2004
Genre: Art
ISBN:

Neoplatonic Aesthetics: Music, Literature, and the Visual Arts explores the idea of a Neoplatonic aesthetic, a philosophy of the arts based on the writings of Plato and the Neoplatonists - principally Plotinus, Proclus, Pseudo-Dionysius, Nicolas Cusanus, and Marsilio Ficino - and more contemporary philosophers - Stephen MacKenna, Iris Murdoch, Denman Ross, Jacques Derrida, and Hans Georg Gadamer. This book examines the artistic production of figures such as Gioseffe Zarlino, Fra Angelico, Leon Battista Alberti, Sandro Botticelli, Michelangelo, and Giorgio Vasari, and it formulates theoretical approaches to contemporary production based in the Neoplatonic philosophies.

Neoplatonism and Contemporary Thought

Neoplatonism and Contemporary Thought
Author: R. Baine Harris
Publisher: SUNY Press
Total Pages: 436
Release: 2002-01-01
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9780791452752

Leading scholars relate Neoplatonism to contemporary science and philosophy.

Neoplatonic Philosophy

Neoplatonic Philosophy
Author: John M. Dillon
Publisher: Hackett Publishing
Total Pages: 412
Release: 2004-01-01
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9780872207073

The most comprehensive collection of Neoplatonic writings available in English, this volume provides translations of the central texts of four major figures of the Neoplatonic tradition: Plotinus, Porphyry, Iamblichus, and Proclus. The general Introduction gives an overview of the period and takes a brief but revealing look at the history of ancient philosophy from the viewpoint of the Neoplatonists. Historical background--essential for understanding these powerful, difficult, and sometimes obscure thinkers--is provided in extensive footnotes, which also include cross-references to other works relevant to particular passages.

A History of Art History

A History of Art History
Author: Christopher S. Wood
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Total Pages: 472
Release: 2021-03-02
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0691204764

"In this authoritative book, the first of its kind in English, Christopher Wood tracks the evolution of the historical study of art from the late middle ages through the rise of the modern scholarly discipline of art history. Synthesizing and assessing a vast array of writings, episodes, and personalities, this original and accessible account of the development of art-historical thinking will appeal to readers both inside and outside the discipline. The book shows that the pioneering chroniclers of the Italian Renaissance--Lorenzo Ghiberti and Giorgio Vasari--measured every epoch against fixed standards of quality. Only in the Romantic era did art historians discover the virtues of medieval art, anticipating the relativism of the later nineteenth century, when art history learned to admire the art of all societies and to value every work as an index of its times. The major art historians of the modern era, however--Jacob Burckhardt, Aby Warburg, Heinrich Wölfflin, Erwin Panofsky, Meyer Schapiro, and Ernst Gombrich--struggled to adapt their work to the rupture of artistic modernism, leading to the current predicaments of the discipline. Combining erudition with clarity, this book makes a landmark contribution to the understanding of art history."--from book jacket

Neoplatonism and Contemporary Thought

Neoplatonism and Contemporary Thought
Author: R. Baine Harris
Publisher: SUNY Press
Total Pages: 432
Release: 2002-01-01
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9780791452776

Leading scholars relate Neoplatonism to contemporary social theory, aesthetics, and spirituality.

Aesthetics & The Philosophy Of Spirit

Aesthetics & The Philosophy Of Spirit
Author: John Shannon Hendrix
Publisher: Peter Lang
Total Pages: 320
Release: 2005
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780820476322

The Symposium and the aesthetics of Plotinus -- The aesthetics of Schelling -- Plotinian hypostases in Hegel's Phenomenology of spirit -- The aesthetics of Hegel -- Architecture and the philosophy of spirit. Plotinus - Estetik Schelling, Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von, 1775-1854 - Estetik Hegel, Georg Friedrich Wilhelm, 1770-1831 - Estetik Estetik - Tarih.

Doppelgangers, Alter Egos and Mirror Images in Western Art, 1840-2010

Doppelgangers, Alter Egos and Mirror Images in Western Art, 1840-2010
Author: Mary D. Edwards
Publisher: McFarland
Total Pages: 236
Release: 2020-06-15
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1476669295

The notion of a person--or even an object--having a "double" has been explored in the visual arts for ages, and in myriad ways: portraying the body and its soul, a woman gazing at her reflection in a pool, or a man overwhelmed by his own shadow. In this edited collection focusing on nineteenth- and twentieth-century western art, scholars analyze doppelgangers, alter egos, mirror images, double portraits and other pairings, human and otherwise, appearing in a large variety of artistic media. Artists whose works are discussed at length include Richard Dadd, Salvador Dali, Egon Schiele, Frida Kahlo, the creators of Superman, and Nicola Costantino, among many others.

Renaissance Theories of Vision

Renaissance Theories of Vision
Author: John Shannon Hendrix
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 295
Release: 2016-12-05
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1317066391

How are processes of vision, perception, and sensation conceived in the Renaissance? How are those conceptions made manifest in the arts? The essays in this volume address these and similar questions to establish important theoretical and philosophical bases for artistic production in the Renaissance and beyond. The essays also attend to the views of historically significant writers from the ancient classical period to the eighteenth century, including Plato, Aristotle, Plotinus, St Augustine, Ibn Sina (Avicenna), Ibn al-Haytham (Alhazen), Ibn Sahl, Marsilio Ficino, Nicholas of Cusa, Leon Battista Alberti, Gian Paolo Lomazzo, Gregorio Comanini, John Davies, Rene Descartes, Samuel van Hoogstraten, and George Berkeley. Contributors carefully scrutinize and illustrate the effect of changing and evolving ideas of intellectual and physical vision on artistic practice in Florence, Rome, Venice, England, Austria, and the Netherlands. The artists whose work and practices are discussed include Fra Angelico, Donatello, Leonardo da Vinci, Filippino Lippi, Giovanni Bellini, Raphael, Parmigianino, Titian, Bronzino, Johannes Gumpp and Rembrandt van Rijn. Taken together, the essays provide the reader with a fresh perspective on the intellectual confluence between art, science, philosophy, and literature across Renaissance Europe.