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Winckelmann and the Invention of Antiquity - History and Aesthetics in the Age of Altertumswissenschaft (Hardcover)
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Winckelmann and the Invention of Antiquity - History and Aesthetics in the Age of Altertumswissenschaft (Hardcover)
Series: Classical Presences
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This volume provides a new perspective on the emergence of the
modern study of antiquity, Altertumswissenschaft, in
eighteenth-century Germany through an exploration of debates that
arose over the work of the art historian Johann Joachim Winckelmann
between his death in 1768 and the end of the century. Winckelmann's
eloquent articulation of the cultural and aesthetic value of
studying the ancient Greeks, his adumbration of a new method for
studying ancient artworks, and his provision of a model of
cultural-historical development in terms of a succession of period
styles, influenced both the public and intra-disciplinary
self-image of classics long into the twentieth century. Yet this
area of Winckelmann's Nachleben has received relatively little
attention compared with the proliferation of studies concerning his
importance for late eighteenth-century German art and literature,
for historians of sexuality, and his traditional status as a
'founder figure' within the academic disciplines of classical
archaeology and the history of art. Harloe restores the figure of
Winckelmann to classicists' understanding of the history of their
own discipline and uses debates between important figures, such as
Christian Gottlob Heyne, Friedrich August Wolf, and Johann
Gottfried Herder, to cast fresh light upon the emergence of the
modern paradigm of classics as Altertumswissenschaft: the
multi-disciplinary, comprehensive, and historicizing study of the
ancient world.
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