Art History as a Reflection of Inner Spiritual Impulses: (Cw 292) (Collected Works of Rudolf Steiner #292) (Paperback)

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Art History as a Reflection of Inner Spiritual Impulses: (Cw 292) (Collected Works of Rudolf Steiner #292) (Paperback)

By Rudolf Steiner, Rory Bradley (Translator), Stephen Keith Sagarin (Introduction by)

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This is book number 292 in the Collected Works of Rudolf Steiner series.

13 slide presentations, Dornach, Oct. 8, 1916 - Oct. 29, 1917 (CW 292)

"I am going to show you a series of reproductions, of slides, from a period in art history to which the human mind will probably always return to contemplate and consider; for, if we consider history as a reflection of inner spiritual impulses, it is precisely in this evolutionary moment that we see certain human circumstances, ones that are among the deepest and most decisive for the outer course of human history, expressed through a relationship to art." --Rudolf Steiner

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, D rer 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.

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.

Art History as a Reflection of Inner Spiritual Impulses is a translation from German of Kunstgeschichte als Abbild innerer geistiger Impulse (GA 292, Rudolf Steiner Verlag, 2000).

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Product Details ISBN: 9780880106276
ISBN-10: 0880106271
Publisher: Steiner Books
Publication Date: June 1st, 2016
Pages: 432
Language: English
Series: Collected Works of Rudolf Steiner