Cold-War Twins: Mikhail Alpatov'sa Universal History of Artsand Ernst Gombrich'sthe Story of Art

• Authors: Vardan Azatyan
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

This article deals with the "afterlife" of a methodological disagreement in the Vienna School of Art History between the positions of Alois Riegl and Julius von Schlosser in Mikhail Alpatov's and Ernst Gombrich's art history survey texts published during the Cold War on different sides of the Iron Curtain. Though these surveys are methodological antipodes, the difference itself, I argue, is possible only within the framework of the larger art historical discourse they share. In addition, I will draw on the radical ideological critique of Alpatov's survey inside the Soviet Union and the case of the Stalinist survey meant to replace it, in order to address the ideological commonality between Alpatov's and Gombrich's surveys.

Keywords

EN

general art history; Cold War; Vienna School; Alpatov; Gombrich

• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: Human Affairs
• Year: 2009
• Volume: 19
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 289-296

Dates

published

2009-09-01

online

2009-09-24

Contributors

author

Vardan Azatyan

• Department of Art History, Yerevan State Academy of Fine Arts, 0033 Yerevan Armenia

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Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/v10023-009-0042-8