‘‘Thus we forever see the ages as they appear mirrored in our spirits”: Willhelm Worringer’s Abstraction and Empathy as longseller, or the birth of artistic modernism from the spirit of the imagined 0ther
As welcome as Worringer’s plea for a global broadening of art-historical research may seem from the present perspective, his theoretical approach, which is tied to a fictive other and determined by primitivist ideas remains problematic. His work helped to draw attention to non-European art, but it i...
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Department of Art History, University of Birmingham
2015-06-01
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Series: | Journal of Art Historiography |
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Online Access: | https://arthistoriography.files.wordpress.com/2015/06/helg.pdf |