Chaos and Cosmos : : On the Image in Aesthetics and Art History / / Karen Lang.
Writing in 1940, the prominent German art historian Erwin Panofsky asked, "How, then, is it possible to build up art history as a respectable scholarly discipline, if its objects come into being by an irrational and subjective process?" In Chaos and Cosmos, Karen Lang addresses the power o...
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Lang, Karen, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Chaos and Cosmos : On the Image in Aesthetics and Art History / Karen Lang. Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2018] ©2006 1 online resource (312 p.) : 1 table, 50 halftones text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Theory Begins with Looking -- Chapter One. Points of View in Panofsky's Early Theoretical Essays -- Chapter Two. The Dialectics of Decay: Rereading the Kantian Subject -- Chapter Three. Goethe, Warburg, Cassirer: Symbolic Form as Orientation -- Chapter Four. The Experience of Time and the Time of History: Riegl's Age Value and Benjamin's Aura -- Conclusion: Encountering the Image -- Afterword: Toward an Aesthetic Way of Knowing -- Notes -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star Writing in 1940, the prominent German art historian Erwin Panofsky asked, "How, then, is it possible to build up art history as a respectable scholarly discipline, if its objects come into being by an irrational and subjective process?" In Chaos and Cosmos, Karen Lang addresses the power of art to resist the pressures of the transcendental vantage point-history. Uncovering the intellectual and cultural richness of the early years of academic art history in Germany-the period from the 1880s to 1940-she explores various attempts within art history to transform aesthetic phenomena-chaos-into the cosmos of a systematic, unified field of inquiry.Lang starts by examining Panofsky's approach to aesthetic phenomena in his early theoretical essays alongside Ernst Cassirer's contemporaneous publications on the substance and function of scientific concepts (and on Einstein's theory of relativity). She then turns to the subject of aesthetic judgment through a rereading of Kantian subjectivity and Kant's uneasy legacy in art history. From here, Lang considers the different organizing theories of symbolic form proposed by Aby Warburg and Cassirer, as well as Goethe's inspiration for both; Alois Riegl's notion of age value and Walter Benjamin's conceptions of the aura; concluding with an extended examination of objectivity and the figure of the art connoisseur.Extensively illustrated with works of art from the Enlightenment to the present day, this venturesome book illuminates an intellectual legacy that has profoundly shaped the study of the history of art in ways that have, until now, been largely unacknowledged. Addressing the interplay of chaos and cosmos in terms of history, art history, philosophy, and epistemology, Lang traces shifts in point of view in art history and the way these shifts change aesthetic objects into historical objects, and even objects of knowledge. Issued also in print. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 02. Mrz 2022) Aesthetics, German 19th century. Aesthetics, German 20th century. Art criticism Germany History 19th century. Art criticism Germany History 20th century. Art History. History. Philosophy. ART / History / Modern (late 19th Century to 1945). bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Backlist 2000-2013 9783110536157 print 9780801441660 https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501731129 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781501731129 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781501731129/original |
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Lang, Karen, Lang, Karen, Chaos and Cosmos : On the Image in Aesthetics and Art History / Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Theory Begins with Looking -- Chapter One. Points of View in Panofsky's Early Theoretical Essays -- Chapter Two. The Dialectics of Decay: Rereading the Kantian Subject -- Chapter Three. Goethe, Warburg, Cassirer: Symbolic Form as Orientation -- Chapter Four. The Experience of Time and the Time of History: Riegl's Age Value and Benjamin's Aura -- Conclusion: Encountering the Image -- Afterword: Toward an Aesthetic Way of Knowing -- Notes -- Index |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Theory Begins with Looking -- Chapter One. Points of View in Panofsky's Early Theoretical Essays -- Chapter Two. The Dialectics of Decay: Rereading the Kantian Subject -- Chapter Three. Goethe, Warburg, Cassirer: Symbolic Form as Orientation -- Chapter Four. The Experience of Time and the Time of History: Riegl's Age Value and Benjamin's Aura -- Conclusion: Encountering the Image -- Afterword: Toward an Aesthetic Way of Knowing -- Notes -- Index |
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