Resumen de The Genesis of "Struktur": Kaschnitz-Weinberg's review of Riegl and the New Viennese School
Guido Kaschnitz-Weinberg's 1929 review of Riegl's Late Roman Art Industry of 1901 is almost unknown today, but was a signal event in the field of art history in the 1920s. It represented not only the Vienna School's most conceptually forceful and critical rethinking of Riegl's work, but also its most considered riposte to the major process of reconsidering Riegl that had been undertaken by Erwin Panofsky and Edgar Wind (one that ultimately led to the formulation of the approach to art-historical method that came to be known as Iconology).
Moreover, in the course of the review, Kaschnitz offered the earliest call to, and definition of, the fundamental Viennese art-historical method of the 1930s to 1960s, associated above all with the likes of Hans Sedlmayr and Otto Pächt -that is "Strukturforschung", the model of analysing the underlying structure of a work of art.
