ON THE PHILOSOPHICAL ARCHAEOLOGY OF ART HISTORY

• Authors: Murár Tomáš
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

Given the different material on which art history as a scientific field has taken shape compared with other historical and philosophical disciplines, this study offers a new historiographical approach to understanding its origin. This approach is explored not in relation to gathering information about the figures and institutions of art history but as an epistemological foundation for understanding the concept of seeing as a deliberate tool of art history. The study argues that the act of seeing, as the archè of art history, can be defined as the philosophical archaeology recently proposed by Giorgio Agamben.

Keywords

EN

GIORGIO AGAMBEN; PHILOSOPHICAL ARCHAEOLOGY; ART HISTORY; ARTWORK

• Publisher: Institute of History of Art, Slovak Academy of Sciences
• Journal: ARS
• Year: 2024
• Volume: 57
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 103 - 111

Contributors

author

Murár Tomáš

• Institute of Philosophy and Religious Studies, Faculty of Arts, Charles University, nám. Jana Palacha 1/2, 116 38 Prague, Czech Republic

• https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3418-1941

Identifiers

DOI

https://doi.org/10.31577/ars-2024-0011