KUNST German Theoretical Approaches to Art (1750-2000) A Zoom seminar co-organized by Caroline van Eck (Cambridge University), Isabelle Kalinowski and Mildred Galland-Szymkowiak (Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris) This seminar will consider theories of art and art history developed in the German-speaking world from 1750 to the late 20th century. In the course of this period aesthetics as a philosophical discipline was born and branched out into various kinds; art history became an academic discipline, incessantly in search of methododologies; morphological approaches to art entered into a dialogue with more historical approaches to ancient and non-Western art. This vast corpus of thought remains to the present day an inexhaustible source of methodological tools to think about the arts. It is particularly relevant today because it took on the challenge of developing global theories of art and its histories, and sought to integrate perspectives on art and material culture from adiacent disciplines such as anthropology. In the course of this seminar the main figures, texts and concepts will be analysed from an interdisciplinary perspective, bringing together art and architectural historians, philosophers and specialists of German language and culture. It is hosted by the research laboratory Pays germaniques (Isabelle Kalinowski) and the Department of Philosophy (Mildred Galland-Szymkowiak) at the Ecole Normale in Paris (Translitterae Graduate Program), as well as by the Department of Art History in Cambridge (Caroline van Eck). Program 2021-2022 The seminars will take place on Wednesdays, from 3 to 5 pm (British time) = from 4 to 6 pm (French time) and will be online. They will be held in English. Once enrolled you will receive the link. 1 December Wilhelm Worringer, by Mildred Galland-Szymkowiak and Isabelle Kalinowski (both CNRS/ Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris) 12 January Karl Rosenkranz, by Margaret C. Rose (Cambridge) 9 February Alois Riegl, Julius von Schlosser and Ernst Kris : Origins of Antique Zoomorphic « Mischwesen », by Caroline van Eck (Cambridge University) 9 March Presentation of the Georg Simmel’s anthology Stile moderno. Saggi di estetica sociale, Einaudi, 2020, by Barbara Carnevali (EHESS, Paris) and Andrea Pinotti (Milan) 6 April Kant’s Critic of the Power of Judgment, by Danièle Cohn (Paris I) 11 May Goethe and Schiller’s Correspondence, by Danièle Cohn (Paris I) 15 June Ernst Gombrich’s Preference for the Primitive, by Mary-Ann Middlekoop (Oxford/Cambridge) Please write to [email protected] and [email protected] for all enquiries or to register. -- Dominique Lainey UMR 8547 Pays germaniques - Archives Husserl Ecole normale supérieure 45 rue d'Ulm - 75230 Paris Cedex 05 Tél. : 01 44 32 30 09 / Fax : 01 44 32 31 22 email :[email protected] -- https://www.vidal-rosset.net/mailing_list_educasupphilo.html
