‘Towards an “exakte Kunstwissenschaft”(?), A report on some recent German books on the progress of mid-19th century art history. Part I: Work by German art historians on nineteenth Century art-historiography since 2000’

Journal of Art Historiography

关键词: German nineteenth century art history writing;    Rumohr;    Kugler;    Schnaase;    Burckhardt;    Springer;    Justi;    Schelling’s;    Hegel’s philosophy of art;    Empiricism;    connoisseurship;    biographical approaches;    iconography;    formalism;   

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【 摘 要 】

Part I. Some younger German art historians have lately spent much effort on exploring the history of their discipline, especially that of the period c. 1820 to 1880. This article concentrates on three works, by Locher, Prange and Rößler, but takes note of books and articles by a number of other recent authors as well.Of particular interest has been the nineteenth century conundrum, summarised as:empirical ‘scientificness’ and, or versus, the metaphysics of ‘art’. It can be found in the writings of two to three generations of German art historians, from Rumohr to Kugler, to Schnaase and to Burckhardt, Springer and Justi. In order to reach an understanding of how the old authors arrived at their analyses, as regards their theories as well as in their dealings with individual works of art, the new investigations use a range of approaches: A broadly contextualised cultural history, a history of ideas approach which concentrates on major philosophical tenets and an approach which explores the textual-organisational structures of the old writings in a more literary sense. In due recognition of both the perspicacity and the thoroughness of the new books this article aims to provide a comprehensive report rather than an overtly critical review.Summarising considerations as well as further problematisations of some of the major issues can be found in ‘Part II’.

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