The new Vienna School of art history : fulfilling the promise of analytic holism / Ian Verstegen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Verstegen, Ian, author.

Series:

Refractions.

Refractions : at the borders of art history and philosophy

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Art--Austria--Historiography.

Art.

Art historians--Austria.

Art historians.

Art--Political aspects--Austria--History--19th century.

Art--Political aspects--Austria--History--20th century.

Art and society--Austria--History--19th century.

Art and society.

Art and society--Austria--History--20th century.

Psychology and art.

Austria--Politics and government--1867-1918.

Austria.

Pächt, Otto, 1902-1988.

Pächt, Otto.

Sedlmayr, Hans, 1896-1984.

Sedlmayr, Hans.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxxi, 331 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh, Scotland : Edinburgh University Press Ltd, 2023.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

This book is an account of the theory and practice of practitioners of the so-called 'second' or 'younger' Viennese school associated with Hans Sedlmayr and Otto Pächt and their short-lived journal, 'Kunstwissenschaftliche Forschungen'. It demonstrates the strong dependence of these writers on the work of Gestalt psychology which was emerging at the time. Gestalt theory emerges as the master key to interpreting Sedlmayr and Pächt's ideas about art and history and how it affected their practices.This fresh interpretive apparatus casts light on the power and originality of Sedlmayr's and Pächt's theoretical and empirical writings, revealing a practice-based approach to history that is more attuned to the visuality of art. Verstegen demonstrates the existence of a genealogy of Vienna formalism coursing throughout most of the twentieth-century, encompassing Johannes Wilde and his students at the Courtauld as well as Otto Demus in Byzantine studies. By bringing Gestalt theory to the surface, he dispels misunderstandings about the Vienna School theory and attains a deeper understanding of the promise that a Gestalt analytic holism - a non-intuitionist account of the relational logic of sense - is offered.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Figures

Series Editor's Preface

Preface

Acknowledgments

Glossary of Terms

Introduction: 'In the Beginning was the Eye, not the Word'

Part I Theory and Methodology

1. The Crisis of the Sciences, Art History and the Vienna School

2. The Basics of Strukturforschung

3. Struktur, History and Determinism

Part II Case Studies

4. Hans Sedlmayr's Borromini

5. Otto Pächt and 'National' Constants in Late Gothic Painting

6. Johannes Wilde on Michelangelo: The Image in Space

7. Otto Demus, Byzantine Art and the Spatial Icon

Conclusion: The Vienna School Today

Notes

References

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references, filmography and index.

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 19 Oct 2023).

ISBN:

1-4744-8979-6

1-4744-8978-8

OCLC:

1372578335