Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Panofsky, Erwin

Titel

On the Relationship of Art History and Art Theory: Towards the Possibility of a Fundamental System of Concepts for a Science of Art

Ist Teil von

• Critical inquiry, 2008-09, Vol.35 (1), p.43-71

Ort / Verlag

Chicago: The University of Chicago Press

Erscheinungsjahr

2008

Quelle

University of Chicago Press Journals

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Panofsky talks about the relationship of art history and art theory towards the possibility of a fundamental system of concepts for a science of art. In discussing a fundamental system of concepts for art theory, Panofsky refers to pairs of concepts in whose antithesis is found the conceptual expression of the fundamental problems of artistic creation. Art, however one chooses to define it and from whatever vantage point one takes, operates through an organization of sensibility. The products of art both preserve a genuine volume of sensible perception and yet also subject it to organization; in this respect they curtail that volume. To put it another way, in any work of art there must be a conciliation of some kind between volume and form as the two poles of a fundamental antithesis.