The New Vienna School of Art History: Fulfilling the Promise of Analytic Holism (Refractions)

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Refractions series
Title page
Copyright information
Contents
List of Figures
Series Editor’s Preface
Preface
Acknowledgments
Glossary of Terms
Introduction: ‘In the Beginning was the Eye, not the Word’
	The Challenge and the Pay-off
	The Players
	The Corpus
	Gestalt Theory: Basis of the Viennese Method
	Doing Vienna School Art History
	Plan for the Book
Part I: Theory and Methodology
	1. The Crisis of the Sciences, Art History and the Vienna School
		Gestalt Psychology
		Holism and Politics
		Sedlmayr’s Turn Towards Iconology
	2. The Basics of Strukturforschung
		Hamburg Iconology
		Two Sciences of Art
		Mental Set (Einstellung)
		Embedded Behaviour
		Reflexivity and Progress
	3. Struktur, History and Determinism
		Genius
		Social Gestalten – Alfred Vierkandt
		Historical Chains
		Historical Compulsion
Part II: Case Studies
	4. Hans Sedlmayr’s Borromini
		The Book
		Sedlmayr’s Method
		Gebilde – Borromini’s Works
		Architektur – Borromini’s Theory
		Dokument – Borromini’s Character
	5. Otto Pächt and ‘National’ Constants in Late Gothic Painting
		Design Principles: Technical and Aesthetic Space
		Design Principles: Surface and Pattern
		The Netherlandish Design Principle
		The Dutch Design Principle
		The French Design Principle
		Schapiro’s Critique
		Reconstituting Art Historical Constants
		Whither Zeitgeist?
	6. Johannes Wilde on Michelangelo: The Image in Space
		Wilde and his Historical Method
		Function, Parts and Wholes
		An Erudite Chapel?
		Gestalt, Parts and Wholes
	7. Otto Demus, Byzantine Art and the Spatial Icon
		Towards Byzantine Mosaic Decoration
		The Icon in Space
		Beyond Byzantine Mosaic Decoration?
		Non-Western Art and Gestalt Restructuring
Conclusion: The Vienna School Today
Notes
References
Index