Book contents
- Style and Meaning in Late Antique Art
- Style and Meaning in Late Antique Art
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Part I Moderns
- One Exploring the “Dark Continent”
- Two Rome on the Danube
- Three East Meets West
- Four Building Vocabulary in the “Epoch of the Great Spiritual”
- Part II Ancients
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
Four - Building Vocabulary in the “Epoch of the Great Spiritual”
from Part I - Moderns
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 15 August 2024
Book contents
- Style and Meaning in Late Antique Art
- Style and Meaning in Late Antique Art
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Part I Moderns
- One Exploring the “Dark Continent”
- Two Rome on the Danube
- Three East Meets West
- Four Building Vocabulary in the “Epoch of the Great Spiritual”
- Part II Ancients
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
Chapter Four examines how the vocabulary of visual abstraction emerged from the language of nineteenth-century studies in optics and psychology and was supported by developments in the occult sciences and currents in modernist thought. It connects Riegl’s definition of late antique style with these developments.
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- Style and Meaning in Late Antique ArtAncients and Moderns on Seeing and Thinking, pp. 75 - 96Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2024