One of the most original art historians of the twentieth century, Edgar Wind (1900-1971) was the first Professor of the History of Art, University of Oxford. His astonishing familiarity with art and its history was allied with a knowledge of the ancient classics, of literature in several languages, and of philosophy and aesthetics. This first volume of his selected papers, published in 1983, is now reprinted in paperback for the first time with a revised and updated bibliography.

The Eloquence of Symbols: Studies in Humanist Art

Arts & Photography

Wind, Edgar

History & Criticism

Oxford University Press

Physical description; xxxvi, 135 p., [40] p. of plates : ill. ; 29 cm. Notes; Includes index. Collection of previously published journal articles and lecture."The published writings of Edgar Wind"--p. [115]-124. Bibliography: p. 115-124. Subjects; Humanism in art - Addresses, essays, lectures. Arts - History. Arts - to ca 1970. Renaissance.

This is the second volume of Edgar Wind's selected papers, a companion to The Elegance of Symbols. Of all the scholars associated with the early development of the Warbur Institute Edgar Wind was the first to apply different theoretical principles to the study of English Art, above all in his early study of English portraiture, now a classic art history text. As the seminal essay, it gives title to the present volume, and is here translated into English for the first time. In this essay, which marked a change of direction in Wind's own development, he argues that two opposing styles of portraiture, exemplified in the art of Gainsborough and Reynolds, can be related to the different notions of humanity subscribed to by the philosophers David Hume and James Beattie. Other important studies, also reprinted here, make this volume an excellent resource to Wind's tremendous contributions to art history.

Hume and the Heroic Portrait: Studies in Eighteenth-Century Imagery

History

An exploration of philosophical and mystical sources of iconography in Renaissance art.

Pagan Mysteries in the Renaissance

W.W.Norton&Company

Pagan mysteries in the Renaissance

FABER

Bellini's Feast Of The Gods: A Study In Venetian Humanism

Bellini's Feast of the Gods: A Study in Venetian Humanism

Harvard University Press

Will works of the imagination ever regain the power they once had to challenge and mould society and the individual? This was the question posed by Edgar Wind's influential Reith Lectures delivered in 1960 and later expanded into his book Art and Anarchy. The book examines the various forces that have fashioned the modern view of the art, from mechanization and fear of intellect to connoisseurship and--perhaps the fundamental weakness of our age--the dispassionate acceptance of art. In the course of his discussion, Wind surveyed a wide range of topics in the history of painting, literature, music, and the plastic arts from the Renaissance to modern times.

Art and Anarchy

Duckworth Co. Ltd., Duckworth Co.

Northwestern University Press

Will works of the imagination ever regain the power they once had to challenge and mould society and the individual? This was the question posed by Edgar Wind's influential Reith Lectures delivered in 1960 and later expanded into his book Art and Anarchy. The book examines the various forces that have fashioned the modern view of the art, from mechanization and fear of intellect to connoisseurship and--perhaps the fundamental weakness of our age--the dispassionate acceptance of art. In the course of his discussion, Wind surveyed a wide range of topics in the history of painting, literature, music, and the plastic arts from the Renaissance to modern times.

Duckworth Co., Ltd.

Edgar Wind was one of the most distinguished art historians and philosophers of the twentieth century. He made crucial contributions to debates on aesthetics and on the interdisciplinary nature of cultural history involving such other leading figures as Ernst Cassirer and Erwin Panofsky. It is not always realised, however, that his early thinking was moulded by a concern with the German philosophical tradition, culminating in the analysis of the meaning and function of scientific experimentation and proof. This first edition in English of Edgar Wind's important work Das Experiment und die Metaphysik: Zur Auflosung der kosmologischen Antinomien (1934) also carries a new introduction by Matthew Rampley, placing Wind's philosophical thinking in context. The work is being published to coincide with the opening in 2000 of the Sackler Library at Oxford, which will include a Wind Reading Room.

Experiment and Metaphysics (Legenda)

Science & Math

Routledge

Art historian and philosopher Edgar Wind completed his monograph on Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel ceiling frescos in 1936. Adopting a methodological approach developed by Aby Warburg, who was Wind's colleague in Hamburg, he analyzed Michelangelo's choice of themes. Although the work was complete, it was never published, and is presented now for the first time in printed form, accompanied by an extensive editor's postscript.

Die Bildsprache Michelangelos (German Edition)

de Gruyter

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The Eloquence of Symbols: Studies in Humanist Art

The Eloquence of Symbols: Studies in Humanist Art

Hume and the Heroic Portrait: Studies in Eighteenth-Century Imagery

Pagan Mysteries in the Renaissance

Pagan mysteries in the Renaissance

Bellini's Feast of the Gods: A Study in Venetian Humanism

Art and Anarchy

Art and Anarchy

Experiment and Metaphysics (Legenda)

Die Bildsprache Michelangelos (German Edition)