The Rustic Style

by Ernst Kris

Originating as a doctoral dissertation and first published in 1926, Ernst Kris's The Rustic Style is a pioneering inquiry into the relationship between art and nature in early modern decorative arts and garden design. This precocious study--by a young Viennese museum curator who would subsequently make his name as a leading psychoanalyst--was an attempt to define the character of late-sixteenth-century naturalism. It put scientific observation...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0884024989
• ISBN13: 9780884024989
• Release Date: October 2023
• Publisher: Dumbarton Oaks Research Library & Collection
• Length: 192 Pages