Goethe on Art.

Berkeley: University of California Press, 1980.. 8vo. 251 pp. Hard cover. Very Good+. Maroon cloth covered boards. Dust Jacket Very Good. DJ clipped. B&W plates.From the Collection of the Art Historian Peter Selz. ISBN: 0520039955 9780520039957 0520039963 9780520039964.Contents: I. General aesthetics : Introduction to the Propylaen (1798) ; Commentary on Falconet --Aus Goethes Brieftasche, 1776 ; Simple imitation of nature, manner, style --Der Teutsche Merkur, February 1798 ; On truth and probability in works of art --Propylaen I, i, 1798 ; The collector and his circle --Propylaen II, ii, 1799 ; Natural symbolism --Goethe to J.D. Falk, 14 June 1809 ; Drawings --Goethe to Eckermann, 5 July 1827 --II. Classical art : The Laocoon --Goethe to C.T. Langer, 30 November 1769 ; Observations on the Laocoon --Propylaen I, i, 1798 ; The Elgin Marbles --Italian Journey, report, August 1787 ; Draft of a letter to Wilhelm von Humboldt, 16 September 1799 ; Goethe to Duke Karl August of Weimar, 23 May 1817 ; Goethe to Sartorius, 20 July 1817 ; Goethe to Heinrich Meyer, 28/29 October 1817 ; Diary and Yearbook 1818 ; Goethe to B.R. Haydon, 16 February 1819 ; The relief from Phigalia --Goethe to Louise Seidler, February 1818 ; The temple of Minerva at Assisi --Italian Journey, 26 October 1786. III. Medieval and Renaissance art : On German architecture (1772) ; Third pilgrimage to Erwin's grave --Aus Goethes Brieftasche, 1776 ; Strasbourg minster --Dichtung und Wahrheit II, ix, 1812 ; On German architecture --Kunst und Altertum IV, ii, 1823 ; Early paintings and recent restorations in Venice (1790) --Kunst und Altertum V, ii, 1825 ; Heidelberg --Kunst und Altertum I, 1816 ; The triumph of Caesar, painted by Mantegna --Kunst und Altertum IV, i, ii, 1823 ; Observations on Leonardo da Vinci's celebrated picture of the Last Supper --Kunst und Latertum, I, iii, 1817 ; Palladio ; Architecture (1795) --IV. Baroque and contemporary art : Rubens --Goethe to Eckermann, 11 and 18 April 1827 ; Rembrandt as a thinker, 8 July 1831 ; Ruisdael the poet --Morgenblatt fur gebildete Stande, 3 May 1816 ; Claude --Frankfurther Gelehrte Anzeigen, 6 October 1772 --Goethe to Eckermann, 10 April 1829 ; The works of Henry Fuseli, 9 August 1797 ; Flaxman's work, 1 April 1799 ; Philipp Otto Runge --Goethe to Runge, 2 June 1806 --S. Boisseree to M. Boisseree, 4 May 1811 ; Caspar David Friedrich --Jenaische Allgemeine Literatur Zeitung, 1809 ; Peter von Cornelius --Goethe to Cornelius, 8 May 1811 ; Eugene Delacroix --Goethe to Eckermann, 29 November 1826 --Illustrations to Goethe's Faust --Kunst und Altertum VI, ii, 1827.