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Essais d'iconologie: Thèmes humanistes dans l'art de la Renaissance

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Quand les Essais d'iconologie sont réunis pour la première fois, en 1939, l'histoire de l'art est encore dominée par des explications psychologiques et esthétiques, voire réduite à une simple description iconographique. C'est en approfondissant les démarches de ses maîtres Ernst Cassirer et Aby Warburg qu'Erwin Panofsky parvient à lui offrir son statut contemporain de science d'interprétation.À partir d'un corpus d'oeuvres picturales traversant plusieurs siècles du Moyen Âge à la Renaissance, l'historien retrace les métamorphoses des traditions antiques : le temps, l'amour, la mort ou la genèse du monde ; il met au jour de petites odyssées étranges et savantes, dont les épisodes consistent en fusions et confusions de concepts et d'images, en malentendus, oublis, et renaissances de toute sorte.En décodant ces petites "résurrections" humanistes, Panofsky donne accès à une compréhension de la chimie artistique où la pensée imageante prend le pas sur la pensée discursive.

400 pages, Pocket Book

Published November 4, 2021

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Erwin Panofsky

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Erwin Panofsky was a German art historian, whose academic career was pursued almost entirely in the U.S. after the rise of the Nazi regime. In 1935, while teaching concurrently at New York University and Princeton University (something he continued to do his entire career), he was invited to join the faculty of the newly formed Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton. From 1947 to 1948 Panofsky was the Charles Eliot Norton professor at Harvard University.

Panofsky's work remains highly influential in the modern academic study of iconography. Many of his works remain in print, including Studies in Iconology: Humanist Themes in the Art of the Renaissance (1939), and his eponymous 1943 study of Albrecht Dürer. His work has greatly influenced the theory of taste developed by French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu, in books such as The Rules of Art or Distinction. In particular, Bourdieu first adapted his notion of habitus from Panofsky's Gothic Architecture and Scholasticism.

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March 26, 2025
Livre fondateur pour la compréhension des images d’art. Panofsky est un maître dans le domaine.
Le livre n’est cependant pas des plus simple à lire.
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