Title & Author:

The Vienna School reader : politics and art historical method in the 1930s / edited by Christopher S. Wood.

Publication:

New York : Zone Books, 2000.

Description:

485 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
The main characteristics of the late Roman Kunstwollen (1901) / Alois Riegl -- The place of the Vapheio cups in the history of art (1900) / Alois Riegl -- Toward a rigorous study of art (1931) / Hans Sedlmayr -- The end of the image theory (1930/1931) / Otto Pächt -- Remarks on the structure of Egyptian sculpture (1933) / Guido Kaschnitz von Weinberg -- Design principles of Fifteenth-century Northern painting (1933) / Otto Pächt -- Bruegel's Macchia (1934) / Hans Sedlmayr -- Passages from Cézanne and the end of scientific.perspective (1938) / Fritz Novotny -- Rigorous study of art : on the first volume of Kunstwissenschaftliche Forschungen (1931/1933) / Walter Benjamin -- The new Viennese School (1936) / Meyer Schapiro.

Summary:

"This volume introduces to an English-language audience the writings of the so-called "new Vienna School" of art history. In the 1930s Hans Sedlmayr and Otto Pacht undertook an ambitious extension of the art historical project of Alois Riegl (1858-1905). Sedlmayr and Pacht began with an aestheticist conception of the autonomy and irreducibility of the artistic process. At the same time, they believed they could read entire cultures and worldviews in the work of art. The key to this contextualist alchemy was the concept of "structure," a kind of deep formal property that the work of art shared with the world." "The idea of this volume is to bring the drama of this methodological and political encounter to the attention of Anglo-American art historians."--Jacket.

ISBN:

1890951145 (cloth)
9781890951146 (cloth)
1890951153 (paper)
9781890951153 (paper)

Subject:

Riegl, Alois, 1858-1905 Influence.
Riegl, Alois, 1858-1905
Riegl, Alois.
Art Historiography.
Art Research Austria Vienna.
Art Historiographie.
Art Recherche Autriche Vienne.
20.03 methods and techniques of the art sciences.
Art Research.
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Wiener Schule
Ästhetik
Kunstgeschichte
Kunstgeschiedenis (wetenschap)
Structuralisme.
Austria Vienna.

Added entries:

Wood, Christopher S.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 211171
Call No.: N7480.8.R554 V5 2000
Status: Available