Born Under Saturn: The Character and Conduct of Artists. Margot Wittkower, Rudolf Wittkower

Born Under Saturn: The Character and Conduct of Artists



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Born Under Saturn: The Character and Conduct of Artists Margot Wittkower, Rudolf Wittkower ebook
Publisher: New York Review Books
Page: 432
ISBN: 9781590172131

A rare art history classic that The New York Times calls a “delightful, scholarly and gossipy romp through the character and conduct of artists from antiquity to the French Revolution.” Born Under Saturn is a classic work of scholarship written with a light and winning touch. Margot and Rudolf Wittkower explore the history of the familiar idea that artistic inspiration is a form of madness, a madness directly expressed in artists’ unhappy and eccentric lives. This idea of the alienated artist, the Wittkowers demonstrate, comes into its own in the Renaissance, as part of the new bid by visual artists to distinguish themselves from craftsmen, with whom they were then lumped together. Where ...

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