German art history and scientific thought: beyond formalism

Contents

1. Body-Building: August Schmarsow's Kunstwissenschaft between Psychophysiology and Phenomenology / Andrea Pinotti -- 2. 'Look at your fish': Science, Modernism and Alois Riegl's Formal Practice / Margaret Olin -- 3. Heuristic Constructs and Ideal Types: The Wölfflin/Weber Connection / Joan Hart -- 4. The Formalist's Compromise: Wölfflin and Psychology / Daniel Adler -- 5. Recapitulation and Evolutionism in German Artwriting / Mitchell B. Frank -- 6. The Physiognomics of Architecture: Heinrich Wölfflin, Hans Sedlmayr and Paul Schultze-Naumburg / Daniela Bohde -- 7. Materializing Strukturforschung / Ian Verstegen -- 8. Reine Wissenschaft: Art History in Germany and the Notions of 'Pure Science' and 'Objective Scholarship', 1920--1950 / Christian Fuhrmeister.