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A fresh contribution to the ongoing debate between Kunstwissenschaft (scientific study of art) and Kunstgeschichte (art history), this essay collection explores how German-speaking art historians of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century self-consciously generated a field of study. Prominent North American and European scholars provide new insights into how a mixing of diverse methodologies took place, in order to gain a more subtle and comprehensive understanding of how art history became institutionalized and legitimized in Germany. One common assumption about early art-historical writing in Germany is that it depended upon a simplistic and narrowly-defined formalism. This book helps to correct this stereotype by demonstrating the complexity of discussion surrounding formalist concerns, and by examining how German-speaking art historians borrowed, incorporated, stole, and made analogies with concepts from the sciences in formulating their methods. In focusing on the work of some of the well-known 'fathers' of the discipline - such as Alois Riegl and Heinrich Wolfflin - as well as on lesser-known figures, the essays in this volume provide illuminating, and sometimes surprising, treatments of art history's prior and understudied interactions with a wide range of scientific orientations, from psychology, sociology, and physiognomics to evolutionism and comparative anatomy.

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Book category Books in English The arts History of art / art & design styles

• Full title: German Art History and Scientific Thought
• Subtitle: Beyond Formalism
• Author: Mitchell Benjamin Frank, Daniel Adler
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 208
• EAN: 9781409440239
• ISBN: 1409440230
• ID: 04783169
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Weight: 598 g
• Dimensions: 160 × 238 × 17 mm
• Date of publishing: 28. July 2012

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