Alois Riegl: Art History and Theory Format:Paperback The result is a surprisingly

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

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

and suicidality

ISBN-10: 0202363341

Shelf Awareness 02/21/2012

Alois Riegl: Art History and Theory Format:Paperback The result is a surprisinglyAlois 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