ID - 581202 TI - Johann Joachim Winckelmann on art, architecture, and archaeology AU - Winckelmann, Johann Joachim AU - Carter, David R PY - 2013 VL - *88 SN - 9781571135209 1571135200 9781571138460 1306168759 1571138757 1571138463 PB - Suffolk Boydell & Brewer DB - UniCat KW - Sculpture KW - Painting KW - Architecture KW - Archeology KW - Art KW - Excavations (Archaeology) KW - Art, Occidental KW - Art, Visual KW - Art, Western (Western countries) KW - Arts, Fine KW - Arts, Visual KW - Fine arts KW - Iconography KW - Occidental art KW - Visual arts KW - Western art (Western countries) KW - Arts KW - Aesthetics KW - Architecture, Western (Western countries) KW - Building design KW - Buildings KW - Construction KW - Western architecture (Western countries) KW - Building KW - Archaeological digs KW - Archaeological excavations KW - Digs (Archaeology) KW - Excavation sites (Archaeology) KW - Ruins KW - Sites, Excavation (Archaeology) KW - Archaeology KW - Design and construction KW - Art, Primitive KW - Architecture, Primitive KW - Art. KW - Architecture. KW - Ancient Greek Architecture. KW - Archaeology. KW - Art History. KW - Artifacts. KW - Empirical Examinations. KW - Johann Joachim Winckelmann. KW - Modern English Translations. KW - Modern Scientific Archaeology. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:581202 AB - Johann Joachim Winckelmann (1717-1768) has long been recognized as one of the founders of modern art history and a major force in the development of archaeology and the study of ancient Greek architecture. He also exerted an influence on the Weimar Classicism of Goethe and Schiller, for whom his description of Greek sculpture as evoking "edle Einfalt und stille Gròˆsse" (noble simplicity and a calm greatness) became a watchword. He contributed to modern scientific archaeology through his application of empirically derived categories of style to the analysis of classical works of art and architecture, and was one of the first to undertake detailed empirical examinations of artefacts and describe them precisely in a way that enabled reasoned conclusions to be drawn about ancient societies and their cultures. Yet several of his important essays are not available in modern English translation. The present volume remedies this situation by collecting four of Winckelmann's most seminal essays on art along with several shorter pieces on the topic, two major if brief essays on architecture, and one longer essay on archaeology. Paired with this is an introduction covering Winckelmann's life and work. David Carter is retired as Professor of Communicative English at Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea, and is former Lecturer in German Studies at the University of Southampton, UK. Among his recently published translations from German are Klaus Mann's novel Alexander (2008) and On Cocaine (2011), a collection of Sigmund Freud's writings on the topic. ER -