Winckelmann's "Philosophy of Art": A Prelude to German Classicism

North旨在建立Winckelmann德語發展中的地位。他的散文有助於形成一種適合表達對視覺體驗情感反應的文學風格。

Winckelmann的出版作品，他的論文和他收集的私人通信作為評價他對德國古典主義發展影響的標準。然而，他的Grecophile熱情使他在古典大理石雕塑的發展中引入了風格類別，不再被視為真正反映希臘羅馬藝術的演變。因此，他的歷史性和他的風格分類仍然存在疑問。

溫克爾曼提出，現代藝術家的訓練應該集中在對古典模型的觀察和模仿上，而不是將自然視為靈感的源泉。這個計劃在他的不幸逝世之後一代人中取得了成功。在接下來的一個世紀裡，藝術家及其贊助商都喜歡古典模型，並在歐洲獨立雕塑，繪畫和建築中發展了風格古典主義。

It is the aim of this work to examine the pivotal role of Johann Joachim Winckelmann (1717-1768) as a judge of classical sculpture and as a major contributor to German art criticism. John Harry North seeks to identify the key features of his treatment of classical beauty, particularly in his famous descriptions of large-scale classical sculpture. Five case studies are offered to demonstrate the academic classicism that formed the core of his philosophy of art.

North aims to establish Winckelmann's place in the development of the German language. His prose contributed to a literary style that was suitable for the expression of an emotional response to visual experiences. His use of rhetoric in the assessment of classical art, however, make his judgements propagandist rather than analytical.

The published works of Winckelmann, his draft essays and his collected private correspondence are advanced as criteria in the evaluation of his impact on the development of German classicism that culminated in the Weimar group of poets and writers. His Grecophile enthusiasm, however, led him to introduce stylistic categories in the development of classical marble sculpture that are no longer regarded as truly reflecting the evolution of Greco-Roman art. Thus his historicity and his classification of styles remain in doubt.

Winckelmann proposed that the training of modern artists should concentrate on the observation and imitation of classical models instead of looking to nature as the source of inspiration. This plan succeeded to some extent in the generation that followed his untimely death. Throughout the succeeding century, artists and their sponsors did favour classical models and developed stylistic classicism in European freestanding sculpture, in painting and in architecture.

  John Harry North(Autor) 

Publisher:Cambridge Scholars Publishing 

ISBN:    978-1443840040 

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