The concept of ideal beauty, which originates with Plato, reemerges at the end of the eighteenth century to inspire a so-called new classicism, ruling one of the richest--and most controversial--periods in French art. Here R???gis Michel explores the renewed quest for ideal beauty as played out in drawings by artists ranging from Michelangelo and Raphael to Anne-Louis Girodet, Jacques-Louis David, and Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres. He traces the fortunes of new classicism from its genesis in Johann Joachim Winckelmann's ...
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The concept of ideal beauty, which originates with Plato, reemerges at the end of the eighteenth century to inspire a so-called new classicism, ruling one of the richest--and most controversial--periods in French art. Here R???gis Michel explores the renewed quest for ideal beauty as played out in drawings by artists ranging from Michelangelo and Raphael to Anne-Louis Girodet, Jacques-Louis David, and Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres. He traces the fortunes of new classicism from its genesis in Johann Joachim Winckelmann's vision of a pure Greek canon to its overthrow by the forces of naturalism and absolutism. For the English translation of this remarkable art-historical study, first published in French in 1989, the author has added a critical introduction that deploys the anti-Enlightenment arguments of Michel Foucault's Discipline and Punish to link ideal beauty to social control.
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Good-Bumped and creased book with tears to the extremities, but not affecting the text block, may have remainder mark or previous owner's name-GOOD PAPERBACK Standard-sized.