Main entry:

Olin, Margaret Rose, 1948-

Title & Author:

Forms of representation in Alois Riegl's theory of art / Margaret Olin.

Publication:

University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, ©1992.

Description:

xxiv, 238 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-230) and index.
pt. 1. Stilfragen and Its Background. 1. The Healthy Observation of Nature. Training in Empiricism. A Search for the Origin of Naturalism. 2. The Risk of Imitation. The Uses of Scholarship. Reform of the Arts and Crafts. Self-Knowledge and the Recognition of Difference. 3. Style as Structural Symbolism. Structural Symbolism. Developmental Histories of Ornament. Ornament and Argument. 4. Questions about Style. The Invention of the Line. The Problem of Filling. The Craftsman as Scientist -- pt. 2. The Threat of the Arbitrary. 5. Truth Not Painting. Varieties of the Real. Perception and the "Essence of Things" 6. Grammars of Truth and Volition. The Grammar of Truth. The Painted Law of Causality. 7. The Structure of Perception: Spatromische Kunstindustrie. Architecture and Sculpture. Tactile Verification. Structural Symbolism as Perceptual Symbolism: Ideal Space. The Kunstwollen. 8. The Ethics of Attention. The Attentive Act. A Defense of Theatricality. 9. The Historian's Performance. Historical Research as Tactile Isolation. The Effect of the Real.
Dust jacket.

Resources:
Table of contents

ISBN:

027100777X (acid-free paper)
9780271007779 (acid-free paper)

Subject:

Riegl, Alois, 1858-1905 Criticism and interpretation.
Riegl, Alois, 1858-1905 Critique et interprétation.
Riegl, Alois, 1858-1905.
Formalism (Art) Austria.
Art criticism Austria History 19th century.
Formalisme (Art) Autriche.
Critique d'art Autriche Histoire 19e siècle.
Art criticism.
Formalism (Art)
Austria.
Riegl, Alois 1858-1905 Criticism and interpretation

Form/genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 91974
Call No.: ID PLS; ID:93-B565
Status: Available