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The Invisible Masterpiece
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The Invisible Masterpiece Hardcover - 2001

by Hans Belting; Helen Atkins (Translator)


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Our notion of the 'work of art' has its origin in the concept of the unique 'masterpiece', an idea that gained currency when the first museums were founded: revered icons or works of star quality were crucial to justify the existence of the temples of art that bourgeois culture demanded.

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  • Title The Invisible Masterpiece
  • Author Hans Belting; Helen Atkins (Translator)
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 480
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL, U.S.A.
  • Date September 1, 2001
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9780226042657 / 0226042650
  • Weight 2.79 lbs (1.27 kg)
  • Dimensions 11.17 x 6.63 x 1.3 in (28.37 x 16.84 x 3.30 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Art appreciation - History, Art criticism - History
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2001027411
  • Dewey Decimal Code 701.18

About the author

Hans Belting is a professor of art history and media theory at the Hochshule fr Gestaltung, Karlsruhe, Germany, and visiting professor at Columbia University. He is the author of Likeness and Presence and The End of the History of Art?, both published by the University of Chicago Press.
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Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2001. Cloth, 480 pages, illustrations; 25 cm. English translation by Helen Atkins. Tight, clean copy. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. A fine copy of the first printing. "The 'invisible masterpiece' is an unattainable ideal, a work of art into which a dream of absolute art is incorporated but can never be realized. Using this metaphor borrowed from Balzac, Hans Belting explores the history of 'the masterpiece' and how its status and meaning have been elevated and denigrated since the early nineteenth century. Before 1800, works of art were either imitative (portraits and landscapes) or narrative (history painting). But under the influence of Romantic modernity, the physical object--a painted canvas, for example, or a sculpture--came to be seen as visible testimony of the artist's attempt to achieve absolute or ultimate art in short, the impossible. This revolution in interpretation coincided with the establishment of the first… Read More
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