An edition of Abstraktion und Einfühlung (1911)

Abstraction and Empathy

A Contribution to the Psychology of Style

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Abstraction and Empathy
Wilhelm Worringer
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An edition of Abstraktion und Einfühlung (1911)

Abstraction and Empathy

A Contribution to the Psychology of Style

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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
1997, Ivan R. Dee
in English - 1st Elephant pbk. ed.
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Abstraction and Empathy: A Contribution to the Psychology of Style
1953, International Universities Press
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Abstraktion und Einfühlung: ein Beitrag zur Stilpsychologie
1921, Piper
in German - 11. unveränderte Aufl. --
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Abstraktion und Einfühlung: ein Beitrag zur Stilpsychologie
1911, R. Piper
in German - 3., mit einen Anhang vermehrte Aufl.

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