Main entry:

Riegl, Alois, 1858-1905.

Title & Author:

Historical grammar of the visual arts / Alois Riegl ; translated by Jacqueline E. Jung ; foreword by Benjamin Binstock.

Publication:

New York : Zone Books, 2004.

Description:

495 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 435-444) and index.
Aloïs Riegl, monumental ruin : why we still need to read Historical grammar of the visual arts / Benjamin Binstock -- Übersetzungsfragen : form, communication, and questions of translating Riegl / Jacqueline E. Jung -- First version. Book manuscript of 1897-1898. First period : art as improvement of nature through physical beauty -- Second period : art as improvement of nature through spiritual beauty -- Third period : art as reproduction of transitory nature -- Purpose -- Motifs -- Form and surface -- Draft of the missing conclusion -- Second version. Lecture notes of 1899. First period : antique anthropomorphic polytheism to the Third Century C.E. -- Second period : Christian monotheism, 313-1520 -- Third period : natural-scientific worldview -- Motifs and purposes -- Form and surface.
Translated from the German.

Summary:

"Alois Riegl (1858-1905) was one of the greatest modern art historians. The most important member of the so-called "Vienna School," Riegl developed a highly refined technique of visual or formal analysis, as opposed to the iconological method with its emphasis on decoding motifs through recourse to texts. Riegl also pioneered understanding of the changing role of the viewer, the significance of non-high art objects or what would now be called visual or material culture, and theories of art and art history, including his much-debated neologism Kunstwollen (the will of art). At last, his Historical Grammar of the Visual Arts, which brings together the diverse threads of his thought, is available to an English-language audience, in a superlative translation by Jacqueline E.
Jung. In one of the earliest and perhaps the most brilliant of all art historical "surveys," Riegl addresses the different visual arts within a sweeping conception of the history of culture. His account derives from Hegelian models but decisively opens onto alternative pathways that continue to complicate attempts to reduce art merely to the artist's intentions or its social and historical functions."--Jacket.

ISBN:

1890951455 (cloth)
9781890951450 (cloth)

Subject:

Art History.
Art Philosophy.
Art Histoire.
Art Philosophie.
art history.
Art.
Beeldende kunsten.
Onderzoek.
Theorieën.
Historische grammatica.

Form/genre:

Writings.
History.

Added entries:

Binstock, Benjamin.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 233152
Call No.: N7480.8.R554 R5 2004
Status: Available