The Invisible Masterpiece |
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| Author:
| Belting, Hans |
| ISBN: | 978-1-86189-088-7 |
| Publication Date: | Jan 2001 |
| Publisher: | Reaktion Books, Limited
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
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Book Description:
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The "invisible masterpiece" is an unattainable ideal, a work in which a dream of absolute art is incorporated but can never be realised. By means of this metaphor borrowed from Balzac, Hans Belting shows the variety of ways in which the status and meaning of the masterpiece have been elevated anddenigrated since the early nineteenth century. Highly illustrated with numerous pivotal images.
The "invisible masterpiece" is an unattainable ideal, a work in which a dream of absolute art is incorporated but can never be realised. By means of this metaphor borrowed from Balzac, Hans Belting shows the variety of ways in which the status and meaning of the masterpiece have been elevated anddenigrated since the early nineteenth century. Highly illustrated with numerous pivotal images.