UID:
almahu_9948664502502882
Format:
1 online resource (227 p.)
Edition:
1st, New ed.
ISBN:
9783653031676
Series Statement:
Schriftenreihe der Slowakischen Akademie der Wissenschaften / Series of the Slovak Academy of Sciences 5
Content:
This book consists of essays on the Vienna School’s impact on Central European art history, Walter Benjamin’s move from transhistoricism to historical relativism, Jacob Burckhardt’s legacy and its metamorphoses, two competing conceptions of the social history of art, and Ernst Gombrich’s life long struggle against metaphysics. All share a common denominator: concern with the trajectories of art historical ideas and their ideological instrumentality. However, the author’s aim in analysing the premises and intentions of art historical discourse is not to undermine the credibility of art history by reducing it to total epistemological relativism. The historiography of art historical theories and critical reflection on their ideological background is understood by the author as an auxiliary art historical subdiscipline.
Note:
Contents: Visions and Revisions within the Vienna School – The Depth of the Historicity of Art – Metamorphoses of Burckhardt’s Legacy – From Ideological Critique to Apologia for the Market – Gombrich’s Struggle – From a National to a Dynastic History of Art – Paths and Strategies of Art History in Central Europe.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783631644522
Language:
English
DOI:
10.3726/978-3-653-03167-6
URL:
https://www.peterlang.com/view/product/19779?format=EPDF
