Book cover for Seeing Ideas: Goethe's Science and Modernist Aesthetics by Frederick Amrine

Seeing Ideas

Goethe's Science and Modernist Aesthetics

2020 Released
28 Pages
1 Hours
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Independently PublishedISBN 9798645737139

This essay seeks to address a perplexing question: Why was Goethe's scientific work far more influential in twentieth-century art and aesthetics than in science? I argue that Goethe's science is in a real sense expressionist, and more specifically cubist.

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