Art, culture and nature : from art history to world art studies /
Onians, John, 1942-
Art, culture and nature : from art history to world art studies / John Onians. - vii, 576 p. : ill. ; 24cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction -- Art history, Kunstgeschichte and Historia -- World art studies and the need for a new natural history of art -- Inside the brain : looking for the foundations of art history -- A natural anthropology of art -- Art and culture -- War, mathematics, and art in ancient Greece -- Idea and product : potter and philosopher in classical Athens -- Tabernacle and temple and the cosmos of the Jews -- From the double crown to the double pediment -- Brunelleschi : humanist or nationalist? -- Alberri and [PHILARETE] -- Leon Battista Alberti : the problem of personal and urban identity -- Abstraction and imagination in late antiquity -- On how to listen to high Renaissance art -- The column : the material, the magic and the mind of architecture -- Architecture, metaphor and the mind -- The last judgement of Renaissance architecture -- Serlio and the history of architecture -- The system of the orders in Renaissance architectural thought -- Art and nature -- The origins of art -- The biological and geographical bases of cultural borders : the case of the earliest European prehistoric art -- Introduction : art and ritual - the biological connection -- Greek temple and Greek brain -- 'I wonder ...' a short history of amazement -- Architecture and painting : the biological connection -- The biological basis of Renaissance aesthetics -- Chinese painting in the twentieth century and in the context of world art studies -- The nature of art in Lin Fengmian's China. I. I. II. III. IV. II. V. VI. VII. VIII. IX. X. XI. XII. XIII. XIV. XV. XVI. XVII. XVIII. III. XIX. XX. XXI. XXII. XXIII. XXIV. XXV. XXVI. XXVII.
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Art, culture and nature : from art history to world art studies / John Onians. - vii, 576 p. : ill. ; 24cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction -- Art history, Kunstgeschichte and Historia -- World art studies and the need for a new natural history of art -- Inside the brain : looking for the foundations of art history -- A natural anthropology of art -- Art and culture -- War, mathematics, and art in ancient Greece -- Idea and product : potter and philosopher in classical Athens -- Tabernacle and temple and the cosmos of the Jews -- From the double crown to the double pediment -- Brunelleschi : humanist or nationalist? -- Alberri and [PHILARETE] -- Leon Battista Alberti : the problem of personal and urban identity -- Abstraction and imagination in late antiquity -- On how to listen to high Renaissance art -- The column : the material, the magic and the mind of architecture -- Architecture, metaphor and the mind -- The last judgement of Renaissance architecture -- Serlio and the history of architecture -- The system of the orders in Renaissance architectural thought -- Art and nature -- The origins of art -- The biological and geographical bases of cultural borders : the case of the earliest European prehistoric art -- Introduction : art and ritual - the biological connection -- Greek temple and Greek brain -- 'I wonder ...' a short history of amazement -- Architecture and painting : the biological connection -- The biological basis of Renaissance aesthetics -- Chinese painting in the twentieth century and in the context of world art studies -- The nature of art in Lin Fengmian's China. I. I. II. III. IV. II. V. VI. VII. VIII. IX. X. XI. XII. XIII. XIV. XV. XVI. XVII. XVIII. III. XIX. XX. XXI. XXII. XXIII. XXIV. XXV. XXVI. XXVII.
1899828958 : £150.00
GBA3-U0270
1899828958 Uk
Art--History.
Art--Study and teaching
709