‘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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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hitherto unaddressed aspect of Alois Riegl’s work, namely a reconsideration of his idea of Baroque in the light of his unpublished manuscripts.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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Aloïs Riegl e il valore dell’antico (o dell’alterazione) nel 'Restauro del Moderno' /
The restoration of contemporary architecture, in terms of design practice and construction outcomes, seems to follow rules that differentiate it from the restoration of historical architecture. The signs of aging, which in restoration theory are one of
Marco Pretelli
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Beyond Mood and Atmosphere: a Conceptual History of the Term Stimmung. [PDF]
Thonhauser G.
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Confederate Statuary: The Difficulty of Preserving Contested Historical Monuments
Removing public monuments from their prominent locations is an act that is likely to cause considerable controversy under most circumstances. This is particularly true when the ideology those monuments were erected to promote is hotly contested within ...
Clinton Jacob Buhler
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Decolonizing Central Europe: Czech Art and the Question of 'Colonial Innocence'. [PDF]
Rampley M.
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The Legacy of Alois Riegl: Material Authenticity of the Monument in the Digital Age
The Austrian art historian Alois Riegl (1858–1905) revolutionised the European concept of the monument and paved the way towards the codification of the historicity of artefacts at the international level.
Alexandra Harrer
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