On Art and Connoisseurship
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On Art and Connoisseurship

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On Art and Connoisseurship

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AMONG art historians of to-day there is hardly anyone who enjoys a position comparable to that of Dr. Max J. Friedländer. He is universally recognized as being probably the greatest living expert, notably, of course, on the early Netherlandish and German masters; and in normal times not a day passed on which pictures were not submitted to him for opinion from all parts of the world. But he is much more than the mere, if accomplished, expert, worried without respite by people eager for his verdict on their possessions: the list of his writings—all of them revealing the outlook of the born historian—makes a truly imposing series, culminating in his monumental History of Early Netherlandish Painting issued from 1924 onwards in fourteen substantial volumes. And for a long time the whole of this ceaseless activity had for its background Dr. Friedländer's connection with the Berlin Picture Gallery and Print Room: their marvellous growth during the period in question owes in fact an enormous debt to the distinguished scholar, whose career as an official came to an end in 1933, when Dr. Friedländer relinquished the post as Head of the great Picture Gallery, to which he had been appointed as Wilhelm von Bode's successor. It is, indeed, the very aroma of that institution in its best days which pervades the whole activity of one of the greatest of those who stand to it in the relation of at once alumnus and creator.

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Information

Publisher
Lowrie Press
Year
2011
Print ISBN
9781406741957, 9781443726474
eBook ISBN
9781447495383
Topic
Art
Subtopic
Art General

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. List of Illustrations
  6. Introduction
  7. Preface
  8. I. Seeing, Perceiving, Pleasurable Contemplation
  9. II. Existence, Appearance, Objective Interest in Things
  10. III. Art And Symbol
  11. IV. Form, Colour, Tonality, Light, Gold
  12. V. The Concept Of ‘Pictorial’
  13. VI. Size and Scale, Distant View and Near View
  14. VII. On Linear Perspective
  15. VIII. Movement
  16. IX. Truth to Nature, Artistic Value and Style
  17. X. Individuality and Type
  18. XI. On Beauty
  19. XII. On Composition
  20. XIII. On the Picture Categories
  21. XIV. Religious and Secular History in Painting
  22. XV. The Nude
  23. XVI. ‘Genre’ Painting
  24. XVII. Landscape
  25. XVIII. Portraiture
  26. XIX. Still Life
  27. XX. The Artist: Genius and Talent
  28. XXI. Art and Erudition
  29. XXII. The Standpoint of the Spectator
  30. XXIII. On The Value of the Determination of Authorship
  31. XXIV. On The Objective Criteria of Authorship
  32. XXV. On Intuition and the first Impression
  33. XXVI. Problems of Connoisseurship
  34. XXVII. The Analytical Examination of Pictures
  35. XXVIII. On The Use of Photography
  36. XXIX. On Personality and its Development
  37. XXX. On the Anonymous Masters, the Medium Masters and the Lesser Masters
  38. XXXI. The Study of Drawings
  39. XXXII. Influence
  40. XXXIII. Artistic Quality: Original and Copy
  41. XXXIV. Deductions A Posteriori From Copies Regarding Lost Originals
  42. XXXV. Workshop Production
  43. XXXVI. On Forgeries
  44. XXXVII. On Restorations
  45. XXXVIII. On Art Literature
  46. Index