Main entry:

Harloe, Katherine, 1978-

Title & Author:

Winckelmann and the invention of Antiquity : history and aesthetics in the age of Altertumswissenschaft / Katherine Harloe.

Edition:

First edition.

Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2013.

Description:

xxvi, 275 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.

Series:

Classical Presences.

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-267) and index.
Introduction : Winckelmann and the imagined community of classical scholarship, 1790-1930 -- Winckelmann in context. 'Placez moi dans un coin de Votre Bibliotheque' : Winckelmann's career in Germany and his self-positioning within the eighteenth-century Republic of Letters ; 'Kennzeichen der griechischen Meisterstucke' : Winckelmann's early Roman writings and the discourse of connoisseurship ; Winckelmann's Geschichte der Kunst des Altertums and its earliest critical reception -- On the contours of Das Altertum and the possibility of its recovery : Heyne versus Wolf. Homeric questions : a late eighteenth-century priority dispute ; Heyne, Winckelmann and Altertumswissenschaft ; Conclusion : the problem of Wolf's Hellenism -- Altertumswissenschaft and the amateur : Johann Gottfried Herder. Heyne, Winckelmann and Wissenschaft.
Dust jacket.

Summary:

"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."--Provided by publisher.

Resources:
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Contributor biographical information
Publisher description

ISBN:

9780199695843
0199695849
(ebook)
9780191755880

Subject:

Winckelmann, Johann Joachim, 1717-1768 Influence.
Winckelmann, Johann Joachim, 1717-1768.
Winckelmann, Johann Joachim 1717-1768
Classical antiquities Study and teaching Germany History 18th century.
Classical antiquities Historiography.
Antiquités gréco-romaines Étude et enseignement Allemagne Histoire 18e siècle.
Antiquités gréco-romaines Historiographie.
15.70 history of Europe.
Classical antiquities Study and teaching.
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Altertumswissenschaft
Theorie
Geschichtsschreibung
Classical antiquity.
Genesis.
Aesthetics.
Antika fornlämningar.
Undervisning historia.
Historiografi.
Germany.

Form/genre:

History.

Added entries:

Classical presences.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 284549
Call No.: BIB 223532
Status: Available