Ut Pictura Noesis? Criticism in Literary Studies and Art History
Ut Pictura Noesis? Criticism in Literary Studies and Art History
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Ut Pictura Noesis?
DOI:
10.2307/468542
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发表时间:
1972
影响因子:
0.9
通讯作者:
Paul J. Alpers
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作者:
S. Alpers;Paul J. Alpers
ART HISTORY is one of the most prestigious fields in the humanities. On the two fronts on which it operates most powerfullythe study of style and the study of iconography-it has had great influence on other humanistic disciplines. We owe to Wilfflin our ideas about period style and to Male, Panofsky, Wind and others our knowledge of iconography, as both a cultural fact and a method of interpretation. Ever since Burckhardt, our consciousness and understanding of cultural history have been intimately connected with art history and enhanced by those who study it. Because of their debt to art historians for methods of interpretation and principles of historical ordering, literary scholars have had little occasion to notice the almost complete absence from art historical writings of the kind of critical considerations which are normal, not to say basic, in the academic study of literature. There are various reasons for this. Students of literature