{"product_id":"german-art-history-and-scientific-thought-beyond-formalism-adler-daniel","title":"German Art History and Scientific Thought: Beyond Formalism Adler, Daniel","description":"\u003cp\u003eTitle:  German Art History and Scientific Thought: Beyond Formalism\u003cbr\u003eEditor:  Frank, Mitchell B.\u003cbr\u003ePublisher:  Routledge\u003cbr\u003eBinding:  Paperback\u003cbr\u003ePages:  208\u003cbr\u003eDimensions:  9.21h x 6.14w x 0.44d\u003cbr\u003eProduct Weight:  0.66 lbs.\u003cbr\u003eLanguage:  English\u003cbr\u003eISBN:  9781138254794\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA fresh contribution to the ongoing debate between Kunstwissenschaft (scientific study of art) and Kunstgeschichte (art history), this essay collection explores how German-speaking art historians of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century self-consciously generated a field of study. Prominent North American and European scholars provide new insights into how a mixing of diverse methodologies took place, in order to gain a more subtle and comprehensive understanding of how art history became institutionalized and legitimized in Germany. One common assumption about early art-historical writing in Germany is that it depended upon a simplistic and narrowly-defined formalism. This book helps to correct this stereotype by demonstrating the complexity of discussion surrounding formalist concerns, and by examining how German-speaking art historians borrowed, incorporated, stole, and made analogies with concepts from the sciences in formulating their methods. In focusing on the work of some of the well-known 'fathers' of the discipline - such as Alois Riegl and Heinrich W lfflin - as well as on lesser-known figures, the essays in this volume provide illuminating, and sometimes surprising, treatments of art history's prior and understudied interactions with a wide range of scientific orientations, from psychology, sociology, and physiognomics to evolutionism and comparative anatomy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eCondition: New\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eItem# 9781138254794\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eActual Book Cover May Vary\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\n\n\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAuthorized Dealer\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Adler, Daniel","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49820195651878,"sku":"9781138254794","price":90.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0128\/7762\/7456\/files\/790f87ed-5d3d-5bfa-be55-2527d8efb99c.jpg?v=1732387723","url":"https:\/\/retrostar-gifts.myshopify.com\/products\/german-art-history-and-scientific-thought-beyond-formalism-adler-daniel","provider":"Retrostar Music","version":"1.0","type":"link"}