Chaos And Cosmos

by Lang, Karen

• ISBN13: 9780801488559
• ISBN10: 0801488559
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-09-28
• Publisher: Cornell Univ Pr

Summary

Writing in 1940, the prominent German art historian Erwin Panofsky asked, "How, then, is it possible to build up art history as a respectable scholarly discipline, if its objects come into being by an irrational and subjective process?" In Chaos and Cosmo

Author Biography

Karen Lang is Associate Professor of Art History at the University of Southern California

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	ix
Acknowledgments	xi
Introduction: Theory Begins with Looking	1	(11)
Chapter One. Points of View in Panofsky's Early Theoretical Essays	12	(29)
Chaos, Cosmos, and Correlation	22	(13)
The "Ideal World" of Style	35	(3)
Representation and Historicity	38	(3)
Chapter Two. The Dialectics of Decay: Rereading the Kantian Subject	41	(47)
Kant's Cosmos	48	(5)
Responses to Ruin(s) and the Late Eighteenth-Century Subject	53	(12)
Cool Idols	65	(10)
The Judging Spectator	75	(8)
The Idealized Subject of Art History	83	(5)
Chapter Three. Goethe, Warburg, Cassirer: Symbolic Form as Orientation	88	(48)
Historical Psychology	94	(5)
Journey to the Southwest	99	(10)
Warburg's Psychological Theory of the Symbol	109	(10)
Cassirer's Philosophical Foundation	119	(4)
Lecture on the Serpent Ritual	123	(9)
Symbolic Forms and History	132	(4)
Chapter Four. The Experience of Time and the Time of History: Riegl's Age Value and Benjamin's Aura	136	(43)
Benjamin Reads Riegl	147	(10)
Historical Value and Age Value	157	(9)
Benjamin's Aura	166	(9)
Historical Perception	175	(4)
Conclusion: Encountering the Image	179	(20)
The Connoisseur	182	(4)
Manners and Modes of Objectivity	186	(7)
Two Forms of Viewing	193	(6)
Afterword: Toward an Aesthetic Way of Knowing	199	(16)
The Journey of the Idealized Kantian Subject	201	(6)
The Subject in Nature and the Subject as Nature	207	(8)
Notes	215	(64)
Index	279