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Principles of art history : the problem of the development of style in later art / by Heinrich Wölfflin ; translated by M. D. Hottinger.

By: Wölfflin, Heinrich, 1864-1945.
Contributor(s): Hottinger, Marie Donald Mackie, 1893-.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: New York : Dover Publications, 1950Description: xvi, 237 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.ISBN: 0486202763.Subject(s): Art -- History | Art -- HistoriographyDDC classification: 701.18
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

What are the fundamental differences between classic and baroque art? Is there a pattern underlying the seemingly helter-skelter development of art in different cultures and at different times? What causes our entirely different reactions to precisely the same painting or to the same painter?
In this now-classic treatise, published originally in Germany in the early 1920s, Professor Wölfflin provides an objective set of criteria to answer these and related questions. Examining such factors as style, quality, and mode of representation in terms of five opposed dynamisms (the linear vs. painterly, plane vs. recession, closed vs. open form, multiplicity vs. unity, and clearness vs. unclearness), the author analyzes the work of 64 major artists, delving even into sculpture and architecture. 150 illustrations of the work of Botticelli, van Cleve, Durer, Holbein, Brueghel, Bouts, Hals, Rembrandt, Velasquez, Titian, Vermeer, and other major figures accompany Professor Wölfflin's brilliant contributions to the methodology of art criticism.
Whether you teach art, study it, or want to understand it purely for your own enjoyment, this epoch-making study will certainly increase your comprehension of and pleasure in the world's art heritage.

"This Dover edition, first published in 1950, is an unabridged and unaltered republication of the Hottinger translation of Kunstgeschichtliche Grundbegriffe originally published in 1932 by G. Bell and Sons, Ltd."

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

  • Preface To The Sixth Edition
  • Foreword To The Seventh Edition
  • List Of Illustrations
  • Introduction
  • The Double Root of Style
  • The Most General Representational Forms
  • Imitation and Decoration
  • I Linear And Painterly
  • General
  • "Linear (Draughtsmanly, Plastic) and Painterly"
  • Tactile and Visual Picture
  • "The "Picturesque" and its Opposite"
  • Synthesis
  • Historical and National Characteristics
  • Drawing
  • Painting
  • Painting and Drawing-Examples
  • Sculpture
  • General Remarks-Examples
  • Architecture
  • General Remarks
  • II Plane And Recession
  • Painting
  • General Remarks
  • The Characteristic Motives
  • Subject Matter
  • Historical and National Characteristics
  • Sculpture
  • Architecture
  • III Closed And Open Form
  • Painting
  • General Remarks
  • The Principal Motives
  • Subject Matter
  • Historical and National Characteristics
  • Sculpture
  • Architecture
  • IV Multiplicity And Unity
  • Painting
  • General Remarks
  • The Principal Motives
  • Subject Matter
  • Historical and National Characteristics
  • Architecture
  • General Remarks-Examples
  • V Clearness And Unclearness
  • Painting
  • General Remarks
  • The Principal Motives
  • Subject Matter
  • Historical and National Characteristics
  • Architecture
  • Conclusion
  • External and Internal History of Art
  • Forms of Imitation and Decoration
  • The Why of the Development
  • Periodicity of the Development
  • The Problem of Recommencement
  • National Characteristics
  • Shifting of the Centre of Gravity