The New Vienna School of Art History : : Fulfilling the Promise of Analytic Holism / / Ian Verstegen.

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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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Architecture and Design 2023
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Place / Publishing House:Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]
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Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
Series:Refractions
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Physical Description:1 online resource (368 p.) :; 17 B/W illustrations 6 B/W line art 18 B&W images and 6 B&W line drawings
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Figures
  • Series Editor’s Preface
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • Glossary of Terms
  • Introduction: ‘In the Beginning was the Eye, not the Word’
  • Part I Theory and Methodology
  • 1. The Crisis of the Sciences, Art History and the Vienna School
  • 2. The Basics of Strukturforschung
  • 3. Struktur, History and Determinism
  • Part II Case Studies
  • 4. Hans Sedlmayr’s Borromini
  • 5. Otto Pächt and ‘National’ Constants in Late Gothic Painting
  • 6. Johannes Wilde on Michelangelo: The Image in Space
  • 7. Otto Demus, Byzantine Art and the Spatial Icon
  • Conclusion: The Vienna School Today
  • Notes
  • References
  • Index