Vienna School Reader: Politics and Art Historical Method in the 1930s AUTH-7348285 a series of books that

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Pylon (1935)

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Vienna School Reader: Politics and Art Historical Method in the 1930s AUTH-7348285 a series of books thatThis volume introduces to an English language audience the writings of the so called new Vienna School of art history. In the 1930s, Hans Sedlmayr and Otto P cht undertook an ambitious extension of the art historical project of Alo s Riegl (1858 1905). Sedlmayr and P cht began with an aestheticist conception of the autonomy and irreducibility of the artistic process. At the same time, they believed they could read entire cultures and worldviews in the