| Edition |
Second edition. |
| Description |
viii, 455 pages : illustrations (part color) ; 29 cm |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 441-447. |
| Contents |
Introduction: the artist's past training and status -- Art as a matter of life and death -- Images of Gods -- Religious architecture -- The sacred book -- The synthesis of heaven and earth fifteenth-century Flemish art -- The synthesis of heaven and earth fifteenth-century Italian art -- Michelangelo -- The synthesis of heaven and earth in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century art -- The table in Baroque secular art -- Rembrandt -- Images of authority -- The architecture of authority -- To be of one's time: the synthesis of past and present in nineteenth-century art -- Themes from nature -- Painting and objects -- The portrait in painting and sculpture -- The figure in sculpture -- Picasso -- Imaginative art -- Death of the window and life of the square: abstraction. |
| Form |
Also issued online. |
| Subject |
Art -- History.
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Aesthetics.
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Elsen, Albert Edward, 1927- Purposes of art. 2d ed. New York, Holt, Rinehart and Winston [1967] (OCoLC)560779792 |
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