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Item Number: 124362
Title: Alois Riegl in Vienna 1875-1905 : An Institutional Biography
Author: Cordileone, Diana
Price: Not Available
ISBN: 9781409466659
Description: Aldershot: Ashgate, 2014. 25cm., hardcover, 314pp., 19 b&w illus. Summary: In Alois Riegl in Vienna 1875-1905 - An Institutional Biography, Diana Cordileone applies standard methods of cultural and intellectual history for close readings of Riegl’s published texts, several of which are still unavailable in English. Further, the author compares Riegl’s work to several of the early works of Friedrich Nietzsche that Riegl is known to have read before 1878. Using archival and other primary sources this study also illuminates the institutional conflicts and imperatives that shaped Riegl’s oeuvre. The result is a multi-layered philosophical, cultural and institutional history of this art historian’s work of the fin-de-siècle that demonstrates his close relationship to several of the significant actors in Vienna at the end of the nineteenth century, an epoch of innovation, culture wars and political uncertainty. The book is particularly devoted to explaining how Riegl’s theories of art were shaped by debates outside the purview of the academic art historian. Its focal point is the Austrian Museum for Art and Industry, where he worked for 13 years, and it presents a new interpretation of Riegl based upon his early exposure to Nietzsche. Contents: Introduction; Part I Intellectual Foundations (1875-1885): Nietzsche as ecucator; positivism as patriotism in Vienna; manufacturing Austria. Part II The Politics and Poetics of Art History (1885-1897): Stil-fragen, or, the multiple questions of style; Patriotism and piety; The advantages and disadvantages of (art) history to life; Framing Austrian modernities. Part II Transformations (1897-1902): Riegl as educator; Affinity, attentiveness, and the history of beholding; A museum of his own; Dissolution and salvation. (Studies in Art Historiography)
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