INSTITUCIONALIZACIJA UMETNOSTNOZGODOVINSKE VEDE IN FORMALIZEM KOT NJENA PRVA PARADIGMA
Institutionalization of the history of art sciences and formalism as its first paradigm

Summary/Abstract: The article deals with the institutionalisation of art history as a »scientific discipline« at the universities in the german-speaking countries at the beginning of the 20th century. Alois Riegl and Heinrich Wölfflin, basing themselves on the humboldtian notions of historiography and philology, posited that the art historian's task is to explore the artistic form (as opposed to the content of an artefact) and, through that, the worldview (of a certain people) which the artefact demonstrates. Their so-called Formalism therefore played its part in the politics of nationalism.

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