Matthew Rampley's The Vienna School of Art History is the first
book in over seventy-five years to study in depth and in context
the practices of art history from 1847, the year the first teaching
position in the discipline was created, to 1918, the collapse of
Austria-Hungary. It traces the emergence of art history as a
discipline, the establishment of norms of scholarly inquiry, and
the involvement of art historians in wider debates about the
cultural and political identity of the monarchy.
While Rampley also examines the formation of art history
elsewhere in Austria-Hungary, the so-called Vienna School plays the
central role in the study. Located in the Habsburg imperial
capital, Vienna art historians frequently became entangled in
debates that were of importance to art historians elsewhere in the
Empire, and the book pays particular attention to these areas of
overlapping interest. The Vienna School was well known for its
methodological innovations, and this book analyzes its
contributions in this area. Rampley focuses most fully, however, on
the larger political and ideological context of the practice of art
history--particularly the way in which art-historical debates
served as proxies for wider arguments over the political, social,
and cultural life of the Habsburg Empire.
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