Richard Offner and the ineffable : a problem in connoisseurship

Author

Maginnis, Hayden B. J.

Document type

Article (acte de congrès)

Language

English

Conference title

Early years of art history in the United States : notes and essays on departments, teaching, and scholars

Author (monograph)

Smyth, Craig Hugh (Editor, Collective Author); Lukehart, Peter M. (Editor, Collective Author)

Source

Early years of art history in the United States : notes and essays on departments, teaching, and scholars. 1993, 133-144, ill.

Publisher

Department of Art and Archaeology, Princeton University, Princeton (usa)

Publication country

United States

Abstract (en)

Focuses on the "Outline of a theory of method" from Studies in Florentine painting (excerpts included in an appendix), drawing attention to the philosophical background (in Kantian aesthetics) and theoretical framework of Offner's scholarship as the key to understanding the character of his work.

Subject (en)

• General works -- Historians and critics
• Offner, Richard, 1889-1965
• Art historians
• United States
• 1900-2000
• Aesthetics
• Germany
• Kant, Immanuel, 1724-1804
• Sources
• Art history
• Methodology
• Writings

Subject (fr)

• Généralités -- Historiens et critiques d'art
• Offner, Richard, 1889-1965
• Historiens de l'art
• Etats-Unis
• 1900-2000
• Esthétique
• Allemagne
• Kant, Immanuel, 1724-1804
• Sources
• Histoire de l'art
• Méthodologie
• Ecrits

Origin

DatabaseBHA (Inist-CNRS/GRI)

Identifier19940701-00344749

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