Riegl, Strzygowski and the development of art [PDF]
Originally published in Towards a Science of Art History: J. J. Tikkanen and Art Historical Scholarship in Europe, Helsinki: Society of Art History, 2009.The lifelong rivalry between Alois Riegl and Josef Strzygowski, both prominent members of the Vienna
Georg Vasold
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Hermann Usener y el arte de la denominación en Walter Benjamin
En El origen del drama barroco alemán Walter Benjamin se refiere explícitamente en tres oportunidades a la obra del filólogo de las religiones Hermann Usener (1834-1905) titulada Los nombres de los dioses. Sin embargo, la influencia de esta última puede
Ignacio Uribe
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‘The originality of Kaschnitz’: Guido Kaschnitz Weinberg, ‘The problem of originality in Roman art’ [Guido Kaschnitz von Weinberg, Das Schöpferische in der römischen Kunst, Römische Kunst, vol. 1, chapter 4, Hamburg: Rowohlt, 1961, 51-73] [PDF]
The vindication of Roman art had been a nearly obsessive preoccupation of the earliest serious comprehensive art historians in Vienna at the end of the nineteenth century.
Karl Johns
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The “Second” Vienna School as Social Science [PDF]
This paper addresses Kunstwollen, not as a historicized concept, but as a social scientific construct open to reinterpretation and input from the evolving sciences.
Ian Verstegen
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Alois Riegl and his lecture notes. A reconsideration of his concept of “Baroque” [PDF]
The present article aims to draw attention to a specific and hitherto unaddressed aspect of Alois Riegl’s work, namely a reconsideration of his idea of Baroque in the light of his unpublished manuscripts.
Eleonora Gaudieri
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Una fortunata metafora di Cesare Brandi: le «chiese di cristallo» degli Armeni
The expression ‘chiese di cristallo’ (crystal churches) appeared in the title of an article written by Cesare Brandi in 1968 for the Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera, which reviewed a photo exhibition on Armenian architecture. This definition for
Ruffilli, Marco
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The Czech Vienna school and the art of the “small people" [PDF]
The article focuses on the attitudes of the Vienna school followers to folk art and primarily examines the writing of the Czech art historians, Zdeněk Wirth and Antonín Matějček.
Marta Filipová
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‘Ideal and material ornament: rethinking the “beginnings” and history of art’ [PDF]
Beginning with the work of anthropologist and prehistoric archaeologist Johannes Ranke, the article outlines a series of debates about the ‘beginnings’ of art and ornament in the late nineteenth century and early twentieth century in German-speaking ...
Priyanka Basu
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Das Bild als eigenständiges semiotisches System [PDF]
Do we communicate with pictures? If so, the text asks, what about their complex, dynamic appearances? Are they part of the communication process? By analysing a cover image of the journal Jugend from 1896 and by consulting the research on the logic of ...
Sauer, Martina
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A 19. századi ornamentika-teóriák antropológiai vonatkozásairól [PDF]
Azok az ornamentika-elméletek, melyekkel a 19. század közepétől kezdve oly bőven találkozhatni, több, akkor formálódó tudomány érdeklődésének központjában állottak.
Sinkó, Katalin
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