Theory And Philosophy Of Art: Style, Artist, And Society (Selected Papers),New

This Fourth Volume Of Professor Meyer Schapiro'S Selected Papers Contains His Most Important Writingssome Wellknown And Others Previously Unpublished On The Theory And Philosophy Of Art. Schapiro'S Highly Lucid Arguments, Graceful Prose, And Extraordinary Erudition Guide Readers Through A Rich Variety Of Fields And Issues: The Roles In Society Of The Artist And Art, Of The Critic And Criticism; The Relationships Between Patron And Artist, Psychoanalysis And Art, And Philosophy And Art. Adapting Critical Methods From Such Wideranging Fields As Anthropology, Linguistics, Philosophy, Biology, And Other Sciences, Schapiro Appraises Fundamental Semantic Terms Such As 'Organic Style,' 'Pictorial Style', 'Field And Vehicle,' And 'Form And Content'; He Elucidates Eclipsed Intent In A Wellknown Text By Freud On Leonardo Da Vinci, In Another By Heidegger On Vincent Van Gogh. He Reflects On The Critical Methodology Of Bernard Berenson, And On The Social Philosophy Of Art In The Writings Of Both Diderot And The Nineteenth Century French Artist/Historian Eugene Fromentin. Throughout All Of His Writings, Meyer Schapiro Provides Us With A Means Of Ordering Our Past That Is Reasoned And Passionate, Methodical And Inventive. In So Doing, He Revitalizes Our Faith In The Unsurpassed Importance Of Both Critical Thinking And Creative Independence.