- 230 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
What does art tell us about man's place in history? In Thought and Image, award-winning author and philosopher Fredrik Lång takes the reader on a two-thousand-year journey spanning the worlds of art and philosophy, from ancient Greece into the modern day. Thought and Image explores the ways in which artistic expression is linked to the way of life and manner of thought of people throughout the centuries. "Art, like knowledge, is an interpretation of a contemporary existence, executed in the concepts that thinking provides at the time. Every picture is worth a thousand words and every significant work of art contains a statement and is a confirmation of the general values of its time." Lång journeys slowly through the winding gallery of images and concepts that man has built up over the millennia, analysing the gaze of Giotto and the technical metaphors of Duchamp. The book ends with a challenging question: What is the significance of the insights gained for the understanding of our own time?
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Table of contents
- Idea and Image
- About the Author
- Copyright Information ©
- Preface
- 1. Introduction
- 2. The All-Seeing Eye
- 3 Nominalism, Individualism And Love Characteristics Of A Major and Profound Change
- 4. A New Relation to Nature
- 5. The Instrumental Perspective
- 6. Denied Instrumentalism
- Bibliography
- Endnotes