Idealism and naturalism in Gothic art.
By: Translated with notes and bibliography by Randolph J. Klawiter. Pref. by Karl Maria Swoboda.
Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press
Published: 1967
Place of publication: [Notre Dame, Ind.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 252
Subjects: Art, Gothic; Sculpture, Gothic; Idealism in art; Naturalism in art
Description: "In his essay on Idealism and naturalism in Gothic sculpture and painting, art is no longer an autonomous phenomenon, but the expression of a ‘world view’. The history of art is no longer seen as an unbroken chain of development, but rather as a dialectic process impelled by the ‘contrast between the ideational and the material’ (Gegensatz zwischen Geist und Materie). Now Dvořák assigned equal importance to naturalism and to its opposite, the fundamentally idealistic character of Gothic art, which he had still vehemently denied in 1904."
Notes: Includes bibliographies.
Translation of Idealismus und Naturalismus in der gotischen Skulptur und Malerei.