The Psychologizing of Modernity(English, Hardcover, Jarzombek Mark)

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The Psychologizing of Modernity(English, Hardcover, Jarzombek Mark) is written by Jarzombek Mark and published by Cambridge University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0521582385 (ISBN 10) and 9780521582384 (ISBN 13).

In The Psychologizing of Modernity Mark Jarzombek examines the impact of psychology on twentieth-century aesthetics. Analysing the interface between psychology, art history and avant-gardist practices, he also reflects on the longevity of the myth of aesthetic individuality as it infiltrated not only avant-garde art, but also history writing. The principal focus of this study is pre-World War II Germany, where theories of empathy and Entartung emerged; and post-war America, where artists, critics and historians gradually shifted from their reliance on psychology to philosophy and theory. Included are discussions of writers such as Heinrich Woelfflin, Ludwig Volkmann, John Dewey, Vincent Scully and Richard Arnheim, among others. The Psychologizing of Modernity is a broad and erudite study of the evolution of modern aesthetic thinking in the fields of art and architectural history.