The Project 'General Theory of Art' [Allgemeine Kunstwissenschaft] (1906-1943): Concept - Institution - Context

《艺术通论》是20世纪初艺术研究的一个跨学科倡议的名称，它结合了对艺术的系统反思和艺术经验。由哲学家马克斯·德索尔和埃米尔·乌蒂茨发起，它迅速成为一个拥有自己的期刊、会议和专业协会的科学平台。三十多年来，该项目激发了德语国家和国外各学科艺术学者的科学交流与合作，突出了国家社会党上台之前德国艺术理论的突出地位。拟议研究项目的主题是对这一跨学科艺术研究倡议的多维重建。这里将集中讨论(1)作为一个回应当代问题并构思不同认识论的概念，(2)作为一个具有多个平台的机构，以及(3)作为一个在特定背景下在当代艺术辩论中发挥特殊作用并在艺术科学史上留下印记的创举。因此，这一研究项目旨在促进现代艺术史和艺术哲学对自身历史的反思，以及对当代研究问题和方法论的思考。

The 'General Theory of Art' is the name of an interdisciplinary initiative for art studies at the beginning of the 20th century, which combined both systematic reflection on art and artistic experience. Initiated by the philosophers Max Dessoir and Emil Utitz, it rapidly became a scientific platform with its own journal, conferences, and a professional association. This project, which inspired the scientific exchange and cooperation of art scholars from all disciplines in German-speaking countries and abroad for more than three decades, highlights the outstanding position of art theory in Germany before the rise to power of the National Socialists.The subject of the proposed research project is a multidimensional reconstruction of this interdisciplinary initiative for art studies. The 'General Theory of Art' will be focused here (1) as a concept responding to contemporary problems and conceiving different epistemologies, (2) as an institution with several platforms, and finally (3) as an initiative in a specific context playing a particular role in contemporary debates on art and leaving its mark in the history of art sciences. This research project, therefore, aims to contribute to the reflection of modern art history and philosophy of art on their own history as well as on contemporary research issues and methodology.