The New Vienna School of Art History Fulfilling the Promise of Analytic Holism
The New Vienna School was – and is – the image-based alternative to iconologyExplains and contextualizes the Gestalt theoretical basis of the New Vienna SchoolHighlights the value of a Gestalt critical realism approach over positivismModels a visuality-based method in distinct case studies showing t...
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Edinburgh
Edinburgh University Press
2023, ©2023
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| Collection: | DeGruyter MPG Collection - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- Intro
- Half-title Page
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- List of Figures
- Series Editor's Preface
- Preface by Richard Woodfield
- Acknowledgements
- Glossary of Terms
- Introduction: 'In the Beginning was the Eye, not the Word'
- The Challenge and the Pay-off
- The Players
- The Corpus
- Gestalt Theory: Basis of the Viennese Method
- Doing Vienna School Art History
- Plan for the Book
- Part I: Theory and Methodology
- 1. The Crisis of the Sciences, Art History and the Vienna School
- Gestalt Psychology
- Holism and Politics
- Sedlmayr's Turn Towards Iconology
- 2. The Basics of Strukturforschung
- Hamburg Iconology
- Two Sciences of Art
- Mental Set (Einstellung)
- Embedded Behaviour
- Reflexivity and Progress
- 3. Struktur, History and Determinism
- Genius
- Social Gestalten - Alfred Vierkandt
- Historical Chains
- Historical Compulsion
- Part II: Case Studies
- 4. Hans Sedlmayr's Borromini
- The Book
- Sedlmayr's Method
- Gebilde - Borromini's Works
- Architektur - Borromini's Theory
- Dokument - Borromini's Character
- 5. Otto Pächt and 'National' Constants in Late Gothic Painting
- Design Principles: Technical and Aesthetic Space
- Design Principles: Surface and Pattern
- The Netherlandish Design Principle
- The Dutch Design Principle
- The French Design Principle
- Schapiro's Critique
- Reconstituting Art Historical Constants
- Whither Zeitgeist?
- 6. Johannes Wilde on Michelangelo: The Image in Space
- Wilde and his Historical Method
- Function, Parts and Wholes
- An Erudite Chapel?
- Gestalt, Parts and Wholes
- 7. Otto Demus, Byzantine Art and the Spatial Icon
- Towards Byzantine Mosaic Decoration
- The Icon in Space
- Beyond Byzantine Mosaic Decoration?
- Non-Western Art and Gestalt Restructuring
- Conclusion: The Vienna School Today
- Notes
- References
- Index.