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Author: Jakob Rosenberg
In this book, Jakob Rosenberg takes up the timeless problem of how to make a valid judgment about artistic quality.
Drawing vital lessons from critics’ writings, Rosenberg charts an effective approach to the challenges of judging quality in works of art by analyzing master drawings from the 15th to 20th centuries and comparing them with examples of followers or minor contemporaries.
Intellectuals have long provoked scorn and irritation, even downright aggression. Many learned individuals have cast such hostility as a badge of honor, a sign of envy, or a form of resistance to inconvenient truths.
“On Pedantry” offers an altogether different perspective, revealing how the excessive use of learning has been a vice in Western culture since the days of Socrates.
Taking readers from the academies of ancient Greece to today’s culture wars, Arnoud Visser explains why pretentious and punctilious learning has always annoyed us.
