German Art History and Scientific Thought

Beyond Formalism
Herausgeber: Frank, Mitchell B; Adler, Daniel

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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. The essays provide illuminating 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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Oktober 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 299g
• ISBN-13: 9781138254794
• ISBN-10: 1138254797
• Artikelnr.: 50445944

Autorenporträt

Mitchell B. Frank, Associate Professor of Art History at Carleton University, is the author of German Romantic Painting Redefined (2001) and Central European Drawings from the National Gallery of Canada (2007). Daniel Adler, Associate Professor of Art History at York University in Toronto, is the author of Hanne Darboven: Cultural History, 1880-1983 (Afterall Books, 2009).

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Introduction: German art history and scientific thought: beyond
formalism, Mitchell B. Frank and Daniel Adler; Body-building: August
Schmarsow's Kunstwissenschaft between psychophysiology and phenomenology,
Andrea Pinotti; 'Look at your fish': science, modernism and Alois Riegl's
formal practice, Margaret Olin; Heuristic constructs and ideal types: the
Wölfflin/Weber connection, Joan Hart; The formalist's compromise: Wölfflin
and psychology, Daniel Adler; Recapitulation and evolutionism in German
artwriting, Mitchell B. Frank; The physiognomics of architecture: Heinrich
Wölfflin, Hans Sedlmayr and Paul Schultze-Naumburg, Daniela Bohde;
Materializing Strukturforschung, Ian Verstegen; Reine Wissenschaft: art
history in Germany and the notions of 'pure science' and 'objective
scholarship', 1920-1950, Christian Fuhrmeister; Bibliography; Index.