Art History as a Reflection of Inner Spiritual Impulses: (CW

Art History as a Reflection of Inner Spiritual Impulses: (CW 292) (The Collected Works of Rudolf Steiner, 292)

Rudolf Steiner understood that the history of art is a field in which the evolution of consciousness is symptomatically and transparently revealed. This informal sequence of thirteen lectures was given during the darkest hours of World War I. It was a moment when the negative consequences of what he called the age of the consciousness soul, which began around 1417, were made most terribly apparent. In these lectures he sought to provide an antidote to pessimism. After describing the movement of consciousness from Greece into Rome, coupled with influences from the Orthodox East, he showed how these influences transformed as the Middle Ages became the Renaissance.

The process that begins with Cimabue and Giotto develops, deepens, and becomes more conscious in the great Renaissance masters Leonardo, Michelangelo, and Raphael. Then this movement continues with the Northern masters, DÃ¼rer and Holbein, as well as the German tradition. One entire lecture is devoted to Rembrandt, followed by one on Dutch and Flemish paintings. Themes are woven together to show how past epochs of consciousness and art live again in our consciousness-soul period.Â

Replete with interesting information and more than 600 color and black-and-white images, these lectures are rich and dense with ideas, enabling us to understand both the art of the Renaissance and the transformation of consciousness it announced. These lectures demonstrate (to paraphrase Shelley) that artists truly are the unacknowledged legislators of the age.Â
Country USA
Brand Steiner Books
Manufacturer SteinerBooks
Binding Paperback
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780880106276
ReleaseDate 0000-00-00

Country	USA
Brand	Steiner Books
Manufacturer	SteinerBooks
Binding	Paperback
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780880106276
ReleaseDate	0000-00-00

Art History as a Reflection of Inner Spiritual Impulses: (CW 292) (The Collected Works of Rudolf Steiner, 292)

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