Unknown premises of iconology? a critical review of Panofsky's proposal for a solution to the problem of historicity
Erwin Panofsky’s iconographic-iconological method aims to enable the interpreter to get rid of an involuntary contemporary bias in interpretation by applying certain corrective principles. Panofsky implicitly answers the philosophical question of whether and why it might be possible to overcome hist...
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| Veröffentlicht in: | Folia historiae artium / Polska Akademia Umiejętności, Komisja Historii Sztuki, Kraków |
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | Erwin Panofsky’s iconographic-iconological method aims to enable the interpreter to get rid of an involuntary contemporary bias in interpretation by applying certain corrective principles. Panofsky implicitly answers the philosophical question of whether and why it might be possible to overcome historical distance and approximate an original historical meaning. The paper argues that his answer is dependent on two presuppositions that have not been identified as such so far. These presuppositions are the concepts of a non-historical nature of man and of perception. This essay explores the function they necessarily, if implicitly, fulfill in Panofsky’s model of interpretation. Moreover, it shows how Panofsky uses a concept of pure perception in his texts from 1915 to 1955. Having found a self-contradiction in Panofsky’s model, the essay concludes that the definition of the possible goal of interpretation should be rethought. |
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| ISSN: | 0071-6723 |