"The Global Reception of Heinrich Wolfflin's Principles of Art History" by Evonne Levy

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The Global Reception of Heinrich Wolfflin's Principles of Art History Studies in the History of Art, Volume 82 Evonne Levy, Tristan Weddigen

Series:
Studies in the History of Art Series
Format:
Hardback
Publication date:
09 Jun 2020
ISBN:
9780300250473
Imprint:
NGW-Stud Hist Art
Dimensions:
320 pages: 279 x 229mm
Illustrations:
70 color + 60 b-w illus.
Sales territories:
World

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Can the reception of a single, widely disseminated book offer a historical road map for a global art history? This is the question posed by the editors of this volume of essays, which charts the enduring response to the Swiss art historian Heinrich Wölfflin’s Principles of Art History, first published in German in 1915. Translated into 22 languages and still in print in many of them, Wölfflin’s book inaugurated an art history based entirely on “forms of seeing” and employing a comparative method. Many of the translators and transmitters of the text are represented in essays on the book’s readership in Europe, North and South America, and South and East Asia. From its reception, positive and negative, the first genealogy of a global art history emerges.

Evonne Levy is Distinguished Professor of Early Modern Art at the University of Toronto. Tristan Weddigen is director of the Bibliotheca Hertziana and professor of the history of early modern art at the University of Zurich.

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