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"Wilhelm Worringer's landmark study in the interpretation of modern art, first published in 1908, has seldom been out of print. Its profound impact not only on art historians and theorists but on generations of creative writers and intellectuals is almost unprecedented. Starting from the notion that beauty derives from our sense of being able to identify with an object, Worringer argues that representational art produces satisfaction from our "objectified delight in the self," reflecting a confidence in the world as it is - as in Renaissance art. By contrast, the urge to abstraction, as exemplified by Egyptian, Byzantine, primitive, or modern expressionist art, articulates a totally different response to the world: it expresses man's insecurity. Thus in historical periods of anxiety and uncertainty, man seeks to abstract objects from their unpredictable state and transform them into absolute, transcendental forms. In his Introduction to Abstraction and Empathy, Hilton Kramer calls the book "one of the key documents in the literature of modernism." He considers the influence of Worringer's thesis and places Abstraction and Empathy in historical context, showing how its ideas are very much alive today."--BOOK JACKET.
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Abstraction and Empathy: A Contribution to the Psychology of Style (Elephant Paperbacks)
November 14, 2007, Ivan R. Dee, Publisher
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Abstraction and empathy: a contribution to the psychology of style
1997, Ivan R. Dee
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Abstraktion und Einfühlung: e. Beitr. zur Stilpsychologie
1976, Piper
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Abstraction and empathy: a contribution to the psychology of style /by Wilhelm Worringer ; translated by Michael Bullock.
1967, International Universities Press
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Abstraction and empathy: a contribution to the psychology of style. Translated by Michael Bullock.
1967, World Pub. Co.
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Abstraction and empathy: a contribution to the psychology of style
1963, Routledge and Kegan, Paul
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Abstraction and empathy: a contribution to the psychology of style
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Abstraction and empathy: a contribution to the psychology of style
1953, Routledge and Kegan Paul
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Abstraction and Empathy: A Contribution to the Psychology of Style
1953, International Universities Press
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Abstraction and empathy: a contribution to the psychology of style.
1953, International Universities Press
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Abstraction and empathy: a contribution to the psychology of style
1953, Routledge and Kegan Paul
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Abstraction and empathy: a contribution to the psychology of style
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Abstraktion und Einfühlung: ein Beitrag zur Stilpsychologie
1921, Piper
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Abstraktion und Einfühlung: ein Beitrag zur Stilpsychologie
1911, R. Piper
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Abstraction and empathy,a contribution to the psychology of style
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