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The Vienna School Reader: Politics and Art Historical Method in the 1930s (Zone Books),Used
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This volume introduces to an Englishlanguage audience the writings of the socalled new Vienna School of art history. In the 1930s, Hans Sedlmayr and Otto Pcht undertook an ambitious extension of the art historical project of Alos Riegl (18581905). Sedlmayr and Pcht 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.Sedlmayr and Pchts project immediately caught the attention of thinkers like Walter Benjamin who were similarly impatient with traditional, cautious empiricist scholarship. But the creativity of the new art history had its dark side. Sedlmayr used his art history as a vehicle for a sweeping critique of modernity that soon escalated into nationalist and outright fascist polemic. Sedlmayr, and by extension the whole scholarly project of Strukturanalyse, were sharply repudiated by Meyer Schapiro and later Ernst Gombrich.The idea of this volume is to bring the drama of this methodological and political encounter to the attention of Englishspeaking art historians and reveal the analogies between the Vienna School project and the antiempiricist cultural histories of our own time.
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