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Blind Spots: Critical Theory and the History of Art in Twentieth-Century Germany
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Blind Spots: Critical Theory and the History of Art in Twentieth-Century Germany Hardcover - 2005

by Frederic Schwartz


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This book is the first to focus on the extraordinary symbiosis between Critical Theory and other discourses of the visual in the first half of the twentieth century. In four extended case studies, Frederic J. Schwartz traces the way central concepts of the aesthetics later termed "Frankfurt School" were deeply rooted in contemporary developments in painting, photography, architecture, and film, as well as psychology, advertising, and the discipline of art history as it was practiced by figures such as Heinrich Wlfflin, Erwin Panofsky, Wilhelm Pinder, and Hans Sedlmayr.

Schwartz explores the shifting intersection between the history of art and the Frankfurt School and seeks to uncover its specific logic. He argues that artists, art historians, and Critical Theorists were united by a common project: that of exploring those aspects of modernity that could only be revealed by its visual products, of knowing the modern visually.

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  • Title Blind Spots: Critical Theory and the History of Art in Twentieth-Century Germany
  • Author Frederic Schwartz
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First American E
  • Pages 320
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Yale University Press, New Haven, CT
  • Date 2005-09
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9780300108293 / 030010829X
  • Weight 2.1 lbs (0.95 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.54 x 6.46 x 0.98 in (24.23 x 16.41 x 2.49 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 20th Century
    • Cultural Region: Germany
  • Library of Congress subjects Art - Historiography, Frankfurt school of sociology
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2004023971
  • Dewey Decimal Code 701.180

About the author

Frederic J. Schwartz is reader in history of art, University College London, and author of The Werkbund: Design Theory and Mass Culture Before the First World War, published by Yale University Press.

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