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Historical Grammar of the Visual Arts (Paperback)
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Historical Grammar of the Visual Arts (Paperback)
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The first English translation of one of the earliest and most
brilliant art-historical surveys, from one of the greatest modern
art historians Alois Riegl (1858-1905) was one of the greatest
modern art historians. The most important member of the so-called
Vienna School, Riegl developed a highly refined technique of visual
or formal analysis, as opposed to the iconological method
championed by Erwin Panofsky with its emphasis on decoding motifs
through recourse to texts. Riegl pioneered new understandings of
the changing role of the viewer, the significance of non-high art
objects such as ornament and textiles, and theories of art and art
history, including his much-debated neologism Kunstwollen (the will
of art). Finally, his Historical Grammar of the Visual Arts, which
brings together many of the diverse threads of his thought, is
available to an English-language audience in a superlative
translation by Yale professor Jacqueline E. Jung. In one of the
earliest and perhaps the most brilliant of all art historical
"surveys," Riegl addresses the different visual arts within a
sweeping conception of the history of culture. His account derives
from Hegelian models but decisively opens onto alternative pathways
that refuse attempts to reduce art merely to the artist's
intentions or its social and historical functions.
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