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Art – Policy – Culture. Selection of Letters

Sztuka - polityka - kultura. Wybór listów

Author(s): Jacob Burckhardt / Language(s): Polish

Keywords: Burckhardt; history of art; history of ideas; history of culture; 19th century

Burckhardt’s epistolography presents less known side of great scholar – an astute observer of political reality and a classical critic of modern world culture’s “degenerations”, person with politico-conservative views.Epistolography helps us to know his complicated and ambiguous personality – the humanist and scholar who was sensitive to formal and thematic aspects and at the same time to functions of an ancient art and a contemporary poetry and music. It consists an unique document of intellectual and political atmosphere of some decades of the 19th century.

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Essay on painting

Esej o malarstwie

Author(s): Denis Diderot / Language(s): Polish

Keywords: art history; 18th century; Diderot; art theory; painting; art criticism

One of the most well-known texts written about art and also an exceptional phenomenon in 18th-century writing on art. Very soon after publication (1795) it was circulated internationally and by the beginning of Romanticism it had already become a classic of art commentary. It sums up a period of several years of Diderot’s life, in a large part devoted to the arts, preceded by years of deliberations on the physiological determinants of the reception of art and by studies on the psychology of creativity.

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Selected papers

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Author(s): Fancesco Algarotti / Language(s): Polish

Keywords: Enlightenment; art; opera; collecting; history of science

A selection of papers by Francesco Algarotti, a Venetian art connoisseur, propagator of the sciences, a man of letters and learning, widely known and recognised in the 18th-century intellectual and aristocratic milieus of Europe. His treatises and essays are proof of both the author’s versatile interests and of the intellectual setting of the Enlightenment of which he was part of. The present volume is the first opportunity for the Polish reader to become acquainted with Algarotti’s literary oeuvre.

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A Selection of Letters

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Author(s): Johann Joachim Winckelmann / Language(s): Polish

Keywords: ancient art; expertise; antiquities; history of art; aesthetic; art and religious experience

A selection of the most interesting letters from the years 1745-1768, showing different motivations and aspects of personality of Johann Joachim Winckelmann (1717-1768) and presenting the changes in the aesthetic awareness in the 18th century. The letters, written by one of the most influential art writers of the Enlightenment, are of great importance for the formation of new models of perceiving art in 18th century Europe. They considerably influenced artistic and aesthetic critical writing.

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Art – Policy – Culture. Selection of Letters

Sztuka - polityka - kultura. Wybór listów

Essay on painting

Esej o malarstwie

Selected papers

Wybór pism

A Selection of Letters

Listy. Wybór