How Long to Read Abstraction and Empathy

How Long Does it Take to Read Abstraction and Empathy?

It takes the average reader 2 hours and 50 minutes to read Abstraction and Empathy by Wilhelm Worringer

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

Wilhelm Worringer's landmark study in the interpretation of modern art, first published in 1908, has seldom been out of print. Its profound impact not only on art historians and theorists but also for generations of creative writers and intellectuals is almost unprecedented. Starting from the notion that beauty derives from our sense of being able to identify with an object, Worringer argues that representational art produces satisfaction from our “objectified delight in the self,” reflecting a confidence in the world as it is—as in Renaissance art. By contrast, the urge to abstraction, as exemplified by Egyptian, Byzantine, primitive, or modern expressionist art, articulates a totally different response to the world: it expresses man's insecurity. Thus in historical periods of anxiety and uncertainty, man seeks to abstract objects from their unpredictable state and transform them into absolute, transcendental forms. Abstraction and Empathy also has a sociological dimension, in that the urge to create fixed, abstract, and geometric forms is a response to the modern experience of industrialization and the sense that individual identity is threatened by a hostile mass society. Hilton Kramer's introduction considers the influence of Worringer's thesis and places his book in historical context.

How long is Abstraction and Empathy?

Abstraction and Empathy by Wilhelm Worringer is 170 pages long, and a total of 42,500 words.

This makes it 57% the length of the average book. It also has 52% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Abstraction and Empathy Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 3 hours and 52 minutes to read Abstraction and Empathy aloud.

What Reading Level is Abstraction and Empathy?

Abstraction and Empathy is suitable for students ages 10 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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