Abstracción y Naturaleza

México: Fondo de Cultura Económica, 1953. Large 12mo in original jacket and a custom burlap jacket; 137, [4] p.; 18 cm. About very good(-) to good(+) in a tattered about good jacket. A decent reading or reference copy. . Hardcover.

Uncommon in Spanish. Translated form the German original. / "Wilhelm Worringer (1881–1965) was a German art historian and theorist known for his influential work on abstraction and empathy in art. His most famous book, Abstraktion und Einfühlung (Abstraction and Empathy, 1908), presents a theory that contrasts two artistic tendencies: empathetic, naturalistic representation, which aligns with classical and Renaissance ideals, and abstraction, which he associates with a more spiritual, inner necessity in art, often found in non-Western and medieval traditions.Worringer’s ideas were crucial to early 20th-century modernist movements, particularly German Expressionism, as they provided a theoretical justification for abstraction in art. He argued that in times of existential anxiety, artists and cultures gravitate toward abstraction as a means of achieving order and transcendence. His later works, such as Formprobleme der Gotik (Form Problems of the Gothic, 1911), further explored his ideas on artistic expression and historical cultural development.His theories influenced figures like Wassily Kandinsky and the Bauhaus movement, as well as later discussions on the psychological and cultural dimensions of artistic form"—Wikipedia