Politics and the Historiography of Art History: Wolfflin's Classic Art

Autor:	Margaret Iversen
Rok vydání:	1981
Předmět:	History Norm (philosophy) Visual Arts and Performing Arts media_common.quotation_subject Art history The Renaissance Historiography Art Subject matter Contemporary art Intervention (law) Politics Realism media_common
Zdroj:	Oxford Art Journal. 4:31-34
ISSN:	1741-7287 0142-6540
DOI:	10.1093/oxartj/4.1.31
Popis:	Historical writing which deserves the name is never just historical. It is also an intervention in the present, for the future. The very subjects chosen are neither capricious dips into the past, nor strictly pragmatic decisions to work neglected fields. Rather, the choice of subject matter as well as the manner of its treatment are governed by a wide range of philosophical, moral and political concerns. I want to consider W6lfflin's perennially popular and recently reprinted Classic Art in this light. What values inform his conception of the High Renaissance? In his essay 'Norm and Form', Gombrich locates the book as a reaction against nineteenth-century realism and as a reassertion of the values once
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