Формализм, авангард, классика. Генрих Вельфлин как теоретик искусства
Formalism, Avant-garde, Classics. Heinrich Woelfflin as Art Theorist

Summary/Abstract: The issues of classic aesthetics in Heinrich Woelfflin’s works are considered in this paper in the context of avant-garde discourse. The notions of visual, bodily, ideological are examined in relation to Swiss art historian’s system. The paper explores the points of convergence between Woelfflin’s theories and different trends in Contemporary Art History (semiotics, post-structuralism etc.). Special attention is paid to philosophical foundations of Woelfflin’s system, its closeness to Friedrich Nietzsche’s intuitions. Theory of classic art is interpreted taking into account its social connotations, its totalitarian, normativistic and utopian dimension. The author comes to conclusion that the elements of reductionism and extremism are important for Woelfflin’s Neo-Kantian «essentialism», which is «value-neutral» but amenable to the interpretation theory of «radical conservatism». According to this methodological strategy politico-philosophical program of formalism (as the precursor of the Social History of Art) can be (re)constructed.

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