In this 1999 study, Beat Wyss provides a critical analysis of
Hegel's theories of art history. Analogous to his philosophy of
history, Hegel viewed the history of art in dialectical terms: with
its origins in the Ancient Near East, Western art culminated in
Classical Greece, but began its decline already in the Hellenistic
period. Yet, as Wyss posits, art refuses its programmed demise. He
highlights the political dimension of this contradiction, showing
the implication of theories which subordinate art to the will of
absolute rule. Wyss follows his analysis of Hegel's theories with a
discussion of the work of four modern successors - Nordau,
Spengler, Sedlmayr and Lukacs - all of whom adapted Hegel's
dialectical model, in an effort to demonstrate the central
contradictions of twentieth-century aesthetics.
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