Scott / Staubmann Georg Simmel: Rembrandt

An Essay in the Philosophy of Art
Erscheinungsjahr 2013
ISBN: 978-1-135-77376-2
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 198 Seiten

First published in 1916 in German, this important work has never been translated into English--until now. Simmel attacks such questions as "What do we see in a work of Art?" and "What do Rembrandt's portraits tell us about human nature?" This is a major work by a major thinker concerning one of the world's most important painters.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Scott, Alan

Staubmann, Helmut

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Editor's Introduction: Georg Simmel on Rembrandt: Understanding the Human Beyond Naturalism and Conventionalism

Chapter One: The Expression of Inner Life

Continuity of Life and the Movement of Expression
Being and Becoming in a Portrait
The Series of Portraits and Drawings
Reserve and Openness of the Portrait Figure
The Circle in the Depiction of a Person
The Animation of the Portrait
Subjective Realism and the Self-Portrait
Artistic Procreation
Life's Past in the Painting
The Representation of Movement
The Unity of the Composition
Clarity and Detailing
Life and Form

Chapter Two: Individualization and the General
Type and Representation
Two Concepts of Life
Observations on the Individuality of Form and on Pantheism
Death
Character
Beauty and Perfection
The Individuality of the Renaissance and of Rembrandt
Types of Generality
The Art of Old Age
The Aspatial Gaze
Mood
Human Fate and the Heraclitean Cosmos

Chapter Three: Religious Art
Objective and Subjective Religion in Art
Piety
Concrete Existence and Religious Life
The Type of Unity in the Religious Paintings
Individual Religiosity, Mystique and Calvinism
Inner Quality
Religious-artistic Creation
Light: Its Individuality and Immanence
Excursus: What do we see in a work of art?
Dogmatic Contents

In Conclusion
The Capacity to Create and to Fashion
Antitheses in Art

Appendix

Über Autor(innen)

Georg Simmel (1858-1918) was a German sociologist of high regard. His most famous work, which Routledge also publishes, is The Philosophy of Money.
Alan Scott is Professor and Helmut Staubmann is Associate Professor, both in the Department of Sociology at the University of Innsbruck, Austria.