Beschreibung
This book consists of essays on the Vienna School’s impact on Central European art history, Walter Benjamin’s move from transhistoricism to historical relativism, Jacob Burckhardt’s legacy and its metamorphoses, two competing conceptions of the social history of art, and Ernst Gombrich’s life long struggle against metaphysics.
Autorenportrait
Ján Bakoš is Professor Emeritus in art history at Comenius University, Bratislava and senior fellow at the Institute of Art History of the Slovak Academy of Sciences. He specializes in the history of art historiography, methodology of art history, social history of art, medieval painting and sculpture in Central Europe, Modern Slovak art and the theory and history of the protection of monuments. He is editor-in-chief of the journal
and the author of many publications including
/
/ (1984),
(1991),
(1991),
revised by E.H. Gombrich (1996),
/(2000),
(2001) and
(2004). He also edited
(2002) and
(2004). In 2000 he was awarded the Herder-Prize by Vienna University.
Inhalt
Contents: Visions and Revisions within the Vienna School – The Depth of the Historicity of Art – Metamorphoses of Burckhardt’s Legacy – From Ideological Critique to Apologia for the Market – Gombrich’s Struggle – From a National to a Dynastic History of Art – Paths and Strategies of Art History in Central Europe.
