by Erwin Panofsky · Gallimard · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782070354900
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«Idea» is Erwin Panofsky's essay on art theory, published by Gallimard in paperback (288 pages, in French).
Panofsky studies the transformation of the concept of «idea» in European art theory, from Plato to the Renaissance. Drawing on philosophical sources and the reflections of artists such as Dürer and Michelangelo, he explains the shift from the work as imitation of nature to the work as inner creation.
The book was published in 1984 in Gallimard's Idées collection, in a French version of a text originally appearing in German.
Aimed at students and professionals of art history and philosophy who wish to deepen their understanding of Western aesthetics.
Erwin Panofsky was a German art historian whose work represents a high point in the modern academic study of iconography, including his hugely influential Renaissance and Renascences in Western Art and his seminal Early Netherlandish Painting.
