German art history and scientific thought : beyond formalism

著者

    • Frank, Mitchell Benjamin
    • Adler, Dan (Daniel Allan)

書誌事項

German art history and scientific thought : beyond formalism

edited by Mitchell B. Frank and Daniel Adler

Ashgate, c2012

  • : hardcover

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注記

Includes bibliographical references (p. [179]-184) and index

内容説明・目次

内容説明

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 Woelfflin - 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.

目次

  • 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 Woelfflin/Weber connection, Joan Hart
  • The formalist's compromise: Woelfflin and psychology, Daniel Adler
  • Recapitulation and evolutionism in German artwriting, Mitchell B. Frank
  • The physiognomics of architecture: Heinrich Woelfflin, 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.

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