Vetoes and compatibilities

• Autores: Carlo Ginzburg
• Localización: Art bulletin, ISSN 0004-3079, Vol. 77, Nº 4, 1995, págs. 534-536
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Part of a symposium on interdisciplinarity. The writer finds nothing intrinsically innovative or subversive in an interdisciplinary approach to knowledge. It might be proposed, he grants, that the current emphasis on interdisciplinarity in the domain of art history has a quite specific concern: the rejection of a narrowly positivistic attitude, focusing more or less exclusively on connoisseurship, in favor of a broader and more theoretically oriented approach. He argues, however, that connoisseurship in most cases actually implies an interdisciplinary approach. Discussing a Fritz Koreny article on a watercolor by Martin Schongauer, the writer posits that its interplay of vetoes and compatibilities, doubts and suggestions, seems to be a distinctive feature of “interdisciplinarity from within.” Good connoisseurship like Koreny's, he concludes, has a cognitive richness that is unsuspected by its detractors as well by some of its practitioners.