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ISBN 10: 022662109X

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Author: Georg Simmel

Georg Simmel is one of the most original German thinkers of the twentieth century and is considered a founding architect of the modern discipline of sociology. Ranging over fundamental questions of the relationship of self and society, his influential writings on money, modernity, and the metropolis continue to provoke debate today. Fascinated by the relationship between culture, society, and economic life, Simmel took an interest in myriad phenomena of aesthetics and the arts.  A friend of writers and artists such as Auguste Rodin, Rainer Maria Rilke, and Stefan George, he wrote dozens of pieces engaging with topics such as the work of Michelangelo, Rembrandt, and Rodin, Japanese art, naturalism and symbolism, Goethe, “art for art’s sake”, art exhibitions, and the aesthetics of the picture frame. This is the first collection to bring together Simmel’s finest writing on art and aesthetics, and many of the items appear in English in this volume for the first time. The more than forty essays show the protean breadth of Simmel’s reflections, covering landscape painting, portraiture, sculpture, poetry, theater, form, style, and representation. An extensive introduction by Austin Harrington gives an overview of Simmel’s themes and elucidates the significance of his work for the many theorists who would be inspired by his ideas. Something of an outsider to the formal academic world of his day, Simmel wrote creatively with the flair of an essayist. This expansive collection of translations preserves the narrative ease of Simmel’s prose and will be a vital source for readers with an interest in Simmel’s trailblazing ideas in modern European philosophy, sociology, and cultural theory.

Essays on Art and Aesthetics 1st Table of contents:

1. AESTHETICS

Sociological Aesthetics

Kant and Modern Aesthetics

Art for Art’s Sake

Autonomy in the Work of Art

2. MATERIALS, FUNCTIONS, INSTITUTIONS

On Art Exhibitions

Aesthetics of Gravity

The Picture Frame: An Aesthetic Study

On Aesthetic Quantities

The Handle

3. STYLE AND REPRESENTATION

A Note on Japanese Art

On the Third Dimension in Art

On Realism in Art

On Caricature

Individualism in Art

Germanic and Classical Romanic Style

4. LANDSCAPE PAINTING

Arnold Böcklin’s Landscapes

On the Aesthetics of the Alps

The Philosophy of Landscape

5. PORTRAITURE

The Aesthetic Significance of the Face

Leonardo da Vinci’s Last Supper

Aesthetics of the Portrait: Part I

Aesthetics of the Portrait: Part II

6. THEATER

Gerhart Hauptmann’s The Weavers

Theater and the Dramatic Actor: Part I

Theater and the Dramatic Actor: Part II

Theater and the Dramatic Actor: Part III

7. SCULPTURE

Michelangelo and the Metaphysics of Culture

On Constantin Meunier

Auguste Rodin: Part I

Auguste Rodin: Part II

Auguste Rodin: Part III

8. LITERATURE

Maurice Maeterlinck’s Wisdom and Destiny

Stefan George: Part I

Stefan George: Part II

Goethe and the Creative Life

Individuality and Character in Goethe and Shakespeare

Rainer Maria Rilke

Acknowledgments

Sources and references

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