Historical Grammar of the Visual Arts

Alois Riegl, Jacqueline E. Jung, Benjamin Binstock

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Zone Books
15 July 2021

Theory of art; History of art & design styles: c 1800 to c 1900

The first English translation of one of the earliest and most brilliant art-historical surveys, from one of the greatest modern art historians

Alos 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 championed by Erwin Panofsky with its emphasis on decoding motifs through recourse to texts. Riegl pioneered new understandings of the changing role of the viewer, the significance of non-high art objects such as ornament and textiles, and theories of art and art history, including his much-debated neologism Kunstwollen (the will of art). Finally, his Historical Grammar of the Visual Arts, which brings together many of the diverse threads of his thought, is available to an English-language audience in a superlative translation by Yale professor 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 refuse attempts to reduce art merely to the artist's intentions or its social and historical functions.

By: Alois Riegl
Foreword by: Benjamin Binstock
Translated by: Jacqueline E. Jung
Imprint: Zone Books
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm,
ISBN: 9781890951467
ISBN 10: 1890951463
Pages: 496
Publication Date: 15 July 2021
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Alos Riegl's major works previously translated into English include Problems of Style: Foundations for a History of Ornament, Late Roman Art Industry, and The Group Portraiture of Holland.

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Historical Grammar of the Visual Arts

Alois Riegl, Jacqueline E. Jung, Benjamin Binstock

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