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Wilhelm Worringer

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differences (2020) 31 (2): 58–85.
Published: 01 September 2020
...Matthew Gannon This essay argues not only that Wilhelm Worringer’s concept of the urge to abstraction from his work of art history Abstraction and Empathy (1908) prefigures Sigmund Freud’s notion of the death drive in Beyond the Pleasure Principle (1920) but also that Worringer’s aesthetics...
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differences (1993) 5 (3): 31–51.
Published: 01 November 1993
... of space. (Worringer, Abstraction 15) Writing in 1906, following what he described as his "miraculous" encounter with the sociologist Georg Simmel in the Trocadero Museum in Paris, the art historian Wilhelm Worringer outlined what for him lay beneath the universal drive of art towards abstraction...
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differences (1992) 4 (3): 1–37.
Published: 01 November 1992
... by Virginia Woolf. Vol. 1. 319-37. London: Hogarth, 1975. 4 vols. . Roger Fry: A Biography. London: Hogarth, 1940. Three Guineas. 1938. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1977. Worringer, Wilhelm. 1908. Abstraction and Empathy: A Contribution to the Psychology of Style. Trans. Michael Bullock. New York: International UP...