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German Art History and Scientific Thought: Beyond Formalism 1st edition
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German Art History and Scientific Thought: Beyond Formalism
A fresh contribution to the ongoing debate between Kunstwissenschaft (scientific study of art) and Kunstgeschichte (art history), this essay collection explores how German-speaking art historians of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century self-consciously generated a field of study. Prominent North American and European scholars provide new insights into how a mixing of diverse methodologies took place, in order to gain a more subtle and comprehensive understanding of how art history became institutionalized and legitimized in Germany. One common assumption about early art-historical writing in Germany is that it depended upon a simplistic and narrowly-defined formalism. This book helps to correct this stereotype by demonstrating the complexity of discussion surrounding formalist concerns, and by examining how German-speaking art historians borrowed, incorporated, stole, and made analogies with concepts from the sciences in formulating their methods. In focusing on the work of some of the well-known 'fathers' of the discipline - such as Alois Riegl and Heinrich Wölfflin - as well as on lesser-known figures, the essays in this volume provide illuminating, and sometimes surprising, treatments of art history's prior and understudied interactions with a wide range of scientific orientations, from psychology, sociology, and physiognomics to evolutionism and comparative anatomy.
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| Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
| Released | October 17, 2016 |
| ISBN13 | 9781138254794 |
| Publishers | Taylor & Francis Ltd |
| Pages | 208 |
| Dimensions | 150 × 220 × 10 mm · 380 g |
| Language | English |
| Editor | Adler, Daniel |
| Editor | Frank, Mitchell B. |
