Review of Alois Riegl, "Die Spätrömische Kunstindustrie", 1927

• Autores: Guido Kaschnitz-Weinberg
• Localización: Art history: journal of the Association of Art Historians, ISSN 0141-6790, Vol. 39, Nº. 1, 2016, págs. 84-97
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Although based in a series of untenable late nineteenth-century assumptions, Riegl's great book, "Late Roman Art Industry" (1901), foresaw and generated the means for a new model of doing art history. Notably, his concept of "Kunstwollen" (subsequently and fruitfully critiqued by the likes of Schnaase, Mannheim, Panofsky and Wind) offers the beginnings of a method that can deal equally and objectively with the art of all periods. Despite the inadequacy of Riegl's book as a final statement on Roman art, in the light of what has become known materially and conceptually since he wrote it, his work shows the way towards a new and objective method for studying art, namely the exploration of the conditions of the existence of a work of art through the analysis of its structure.