Alois Riegl in Vienna 1875-1905: An Institutional Biography

ISBN-13: 9780367433208 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 326 str.

Diana Reynolds Cordileone

Opis

Cordileone applies methods of cultural and intellectual history for readings of Riegl’s texts. The result is a multi-layered philosophical, cultural and institutional history of this art historian’s work of the fin-de-siècle that demonstrates his relationship to several of the significant actors in Vienna.

Spis treści

Contents: Introduction; Part I Intellectual Foundations (1875-1885): Nietzsche as educator; Positivism as patriotism in Vienna; Manufacturing Austria. Part II Poetics and Politics of Art History (1885-1897): Stil-fragen, or, the multiple questions of style; Patriotism, piety and patrimony; The advantages and disadvantages of (art) history to life; Framing Austrian modernities. Part III Transformations (1897-1902): Riegl as educator; Affinity, attentiveness, and the historical Dionysian; A museum of his own; Dissolution as salvation; Conclusion: the Nietzschean palimpsest; Bibliography; Index.

O autorze

Diana Reynolds Cordileone studied art history at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg and completed her education at the University of California, San Diego. She is Professor of History at Point Loma Nazarene University, USA.