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Endosmosis: bio-geographical sources of a World Art History

Tonbul, Zehra (2023) Endosmosis: bio-geographical sources of a World Art History. Journal of Art Historiography (29s2). ISSN 2042-4752

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Identification Number/DOI: 10.48352/uobxjah.00004357

Abstract

The establishment of non-European art historical scholarship at the University of Vienna narrates the influence of turn of the twentieth century German academic exchanges between natural sciences and the humanities. A reading of the historiographical approaches of the works of its scholars, Josef Strzygowski (1862-1941), Ernst Diez (1878-1961) and Heinrich Glück (1889-1930) on Islamic, Byzantine, Persian, Armenian and Turkish art histories connect to recent biological and geographical research centred at the University of Leipzig. Their works unfold a new understanding of the world’s art geography consequential to the influence of biogeographical approaches of Friedrich Ratzel (1844-1904) and read parallels to Ratzel’s impact on the universal historical approaches Karl Lamprecht (1856-1915) and the Diffusionist school in anthropology, in which the world geography is imagined as an intelligible organism with migratory and adaptive mechanisms. The approach made possible for these scholars of the Vienna School to take in account of the previously uncharted areas of art history, by tracing flows and interactions of art forms. The discussion on the biogeographical approaches of Diez, Glück and Strzygowski opens new perspectives into the history of world art history and challenges the colonial and the ethnographical emphasis on the museological, object-based premise of non-European art historiography.

Type of Work:Article
School/Faculty:Colleges (2008 onwards) > College of Arts & Law
Department:Department of Art History, Curating and Visual Studies
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Date:December 2023
Keywords:World art history, diffusionism, Vienna School of art history, Friedrich Ratzel, Karl Lamprecht, Ernst Diez, Heinrich Glück
Subjects:N Fine Arts > NX Arts in general
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