"Form," nineteenth-century metaphysics, and the problem of art historical description

Author

Summers, David

Document type

Article (journal)

Language

English

Source

Critical inquiry. 1989, Num. 2, Vol. 15, p. 372-406

ISSN

0093-1896

Abstract (en)

Examines some of the major categories of description and analysis common to the history of art in the 20th c. (formalism, historicism, materialism) in order to revise old patterns of description and inference, and to argue against both idealism and materialism as sufficient principles of art historical explanation.

Subject (en)

• General works -- Study of art
• Art history
• Methodology

Subject (fr)

• Généralités -- Sciences de l'art
• Histoire de l'art
• Méthodologie

Origin

DatabaseBHA (Inist-CNRS/GRI)

Identifier19911001-00460514

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