CONNOISSEURSHIP AND ART HISTORY. REFLECTIONS ON A PROBLEMATIC RELATIONSHIP

• Authors: Fréderic Elsig
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The article takes a closer look at the problematic relationship between Art History and connoisseurship - the latter in today's general opinion summarizing all negative and old-fashioned aspects of the discipline - in a broad historical overview (from G. Vasari to B. Berenson). The author concludes with defending a complete and organic Art History focused on the object, which allows to conjugate the different approaches (from connoisseurship to a social and economic History of Art or to a History of Taste) and to articulate constantly empirical and theoretical levels, determining the dynamics of research.

Keywords

EN

ART HISTORY; CONNOISSEURSHIP; EMPIRICAL LEVELS; THEORETICAL LEVELS

Discipline

• ARTS_&_ARCHITECTURE: ARTS & ARCHITECTURE

• Publisher: Institute of History of Art, Slovak Academy of Sciences
• Journal: ARS
• Year: 2009
• Volume: 42
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 109-114
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Fréderic Elsig

• Frederic Elsig, Universite de Geneve, Unite d'histoire de l'art, 5 rue de Candolle, CH-1211 Geneve 4, Switzerland

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

10SKAAAA08678