Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Introduction: Our Cultural Situation 1
4. Part I. The Troubled Origins of the Eighteenth-Century Classical Ideal 19
5. Part II. The Unraveling of the Classical Ideal 73
6. Part III. The Spiritualization of Art and the Reorientation of Taste 187
7. Part IV. The Death of the Classical Tradition 317
8. Notes 439
9. Acknowledgments 481
10. Index 483