Free Download Ian Verstegen, "The New Vienna School of Art History: Fulfilling the Promise of Analytic Holism "
English | ISBN: 1474489761 | 2023 | 368 pages | PDF | 3 MB
This book is an account of the theory and practice of practitioners of the so-called "second" or "younger" Viennese school associated with Hans Sedlmayr and Otto Pächt and their short-lived journal, Kunstwissenschaftliche Forschungen. It demonstrates the strong dependence of these writers on the work of Gestalt psychology which was emerging at the time. Gestalt theory emerges as the master key to interpreting Sedlmayr and Pächt's ideas about art and history and how it affected their practices.