Historical grammar of the visual arts
By: Alois Riegl ; translated by Jacqueline E. Jung ; foreword by Benjamin Binstock.
Contributors: Binstock, Benjamin.
Publisher: Zone Books
Published: 2004
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 495
Subjects: Art -- History; Art -- Philosophy
Notes: Translation of Historische Grammatik der bildenden Künste.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 435-444) and index.
Table of contents: title: Aloïs Riegl, monumental ruin : why we still need to read Historical grammar of the visual arts / Benjamin Binstock; title: Übersetzungsfragen : form, communication, and questions of translating Riegl / Jacqueline E. Jung; title: First version. Book manuscript of 1897-1898. First period : art as improvement of nature through physical beauty; title: Second period : art as improvement of nature through spiritual beauty; title: Third period : art as reproduction of transitory nature; title: Purpose; title: Motifs; title: Form and surface; title: Draft of the missing conclusion; title: Second version. Lecture notes of 1899. First period : antique anthropomorphic polytheism to the Third Century C.E.; title: Second period : Christian monotheism, 313-1520; title: Third period : natural-scientific worldview; title: Motifs and purposes; title: Form and surface.