This survey of western art from ancient Egypt to Picasso looks at visual art in a completely new and imaginative way.
Gottfried Richter's lively and penetrating obser-vations will inspire and enthuse the novice, while breathing new life into the thinking of art critics and historians.
Richter concerns himself broadly with architecture, sculpture, and painting--as well as mythology and legend--in pre-senting the creations of artist and architect as an expression of the evolution of human consciousness.
In vivid images he offers the reader interpretive keys to under-stand this process in all areas of art history.
With many examples the author illustrates how human life has undergone a qualitative transfor-mation as humanity has gradually freed itself from a life determined by spiritual guidance in order to take hold of the sensory world and experience free individuality.
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Steiner Books Art and human consciousness, paperback/gottfried richter
