Alois Riegl: Art History and Theory Format:Paperback their reasons

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this led some to experiment with startlingly strange tools like x-ray machines

Chris Berry and Mary Farquhar

The result is a surprisingly candid series of conversations and reflections on how the past infuses the present with meaning

ISBN-13: 9780231107877

Alois Riegl: Art History and Theory Format:Paperback their reasonsAlois Riegl (1858 1905) was one of the founders of art history as a discipline. This is the first general introduction to the work of the celebrated Austrian who brought complex philosophical considerations to bear on art and its history. Ranging easily over diverse fields and among a large group of thinkers, Margaret Iversen establishes Riegl's relevance to recent critical thinking while clearly delineating his extraordinary critical powers. Iversen