Editor's Statement Earthworks: Past and Present
1982; College Art Association; Volume: 42; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1080/00043249.1982.10792791
ISSN2325-5307
Autores Tópico(s)Art, Politics, and Modernism
ResumoIt is now a truism of art history that new methodologies parallel new art movements. Jacob Burckhardt's amazingly detailed, non-hierarchical history of the Italian Renaissance, in which fashions are on a par with city feuds and processions with timeless altarpieces is echoed in the Impressionists' emphasis on daily life in France. Wilhelm Worringer's Abstraction and Empathy, it has often been remarked, bears striking similarities to Die Brücke's reliance on the tribal arts discovered by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner in ethnographic museums. Similarly, Henri Focillon's prose poem The Life of Forms in Art, a Bergsonian affirmation of vitalism manifested in trailing sensuous rhythms, is contemporaneous, in its English translation, with the formative years of the Abstract Expressionists and parallels their belief in the power of paint to communicate and reveal the most profound aspects of existence.
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