Geistesgeschichte and Art History
W. Eugene Kleinbauer
A multiplicity of genres flourishes in 20th century art history, and this variety may be taken as its most salient characteristic. Art historians adopt any one or several a number avenues approach their intellectual study the visual arts: materials technique; problems authorship, authenticity, dating, provenance; structural symbolic elements; function; iconography iconology; artistic biography archival documentation; psychology, psychoanalysis, phenomenology; social, religious, cultural, determinants; even Marxism. These interests are well known have been widely discussed pages Journal elsewhere. Less commonly recognized, admitted, is existence another method investigation that has characterized modern history: Geistesgeschichte history ideas. Because contributed to historical interpretation, it deserves greater recognition understanding. To these goals following ...
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