Thesis--Freie Universität Berlin. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (p. 255-273).

Between the outbreak of World War I and the mid-1930s, the best-selling and most widely read book on the topic of modern art in Germany was written by the art historian Fritz Burger (1877–1916). Burger is now all but forgotten in the art historiography of the period and absent in the English literature. This thesis provides the first English interpretation of Burger's major works and seeks to locate his art historical method in relation to then-contemporary intellectual streams. Trained in the late 19th century, Burger largely rejected the cultural-historical studies and theories of stylistic development and embraced an artistic-critical model forwarded by neo-Kantians like Adolf Hildebrand and Konrad Fiedler. Beginning with Burger's texts Cézanne und Hodler (1913) and Einführung in die Moderne Kunst (1917), I examine the conceptual underpinnings of these works with particular attention to Burger's notions of color, artistic cognition and philosophical speculation. I consider Burger's written output as the compliment to his hands-on pedagogical technique at the University of Munich, his involvement with the Munich avant-garde and friendship with the artist Wassily Kandinsky. Burger's work is a rare and early attempt to write about contemporary art as an historical document but without recourse to artistic biography or cultural milieu as interpretive tools. / text

O presente trabalho busca apresentar a obra de Winckelmann num amplo recorte de textos que contribuem para que vejamos a unidade de seus trabalhos; indicando os avanços dados pelo autor desde os primeiros escritos até a sua obra mais acabada, a História da arte da antiguidade (Geschichte der Kunst des Altertums). A abordagem dos textos aqui selecionados visa apresentar a estruturação do pensamento de Winckelmann desde suas obras seminais até o seu ponto de maior contração conceitual. Esse caminho, a despeito de mudanças e progressos, nos mostra um crescimento, em boa parte coerente, da visão das artes e dos conceitos que dela são extraídos, na medida em que crescem os objetos contemplados. Visamos apresentar a formação de uma história que é, em grande parte, estética e que transfere a carga conceitual daquilo que se pode pensar como a ideia para o modelo plasmado da arte grega. Dos primeiros textos do autor à sua principal obra, o trajeto em direção à antiguidade vai trazer à tona questões que foram fundamentais para a disciplina filosófica da estética. Vemos formarem-se estruturas de abordagem da arte e de sua história que serão sempre subsidiárias da relação direta com o objeto. É na leitura de textos que melhor apresentam esse trajeto que se expõe a formação de um modo de operar que consegue extrair conceitos da obra de arte e suas consequências que baseamos o todo desse trabalho. Sua história, em sendo uma estética, teve desdobramentos dos mais diversos e marcou o debate que relacionava as artes com a filosofia e a história no século XVIII. / This thesis is an enquiry of Winckelmanns works that aims to the presentation of the structures of seeing that had arose as an approach to the works of art and that became the conceptual basis of a history of art that is in fact an aesthetical construction. From his first works, that had been written when the author was a librarian at Nöthnitz to the main works of the roman period, we tried to show a path that is to be thought as attached to the work of art, a contemplation of the arts that does not make great moves without the direct experience of beauty. Beauty comes from the transcendence of a norm to be embodied in the immanence of some works of ancient art that have reached the conceptual beauty in the materiality of the earthly world. The way of doing that, has been constructed, with a surprisingly coherence of some aspects of his theory and with some paradigm changes around the possibilities of seeing. In the major work History of the art of antiquity the tools that were to be acquired in a sort of relationship with the arts of the past that allows the spectator to see towards the embodied surface of the work of art are linked to a dynamics of historical possibilities that arose in the internal movements of societies but the criteria that elects the works is always to be thought as an aesthetic movement. Winckelmann, as an art thinker, established some movements of seeing and concepts that were in the basis of the newborn discipline of aesthetics. His history is as an aesthetics in form of history, and the consequences of that were proliferous, as can be seen in the flourishing debates of the binding of art, philosophy and history in the end of the eighteenth century.

Thesis (MPhil(R)) - University of Glasgow, 2007. / MPhil(R) thesis submitted to the Department of German, Faculty of Arts, University of Glasgow, 2007. Includes bibliographical references. Print version also available.

O presente trabalho busca apresentar a obra de Winckelmann num amplo recorte de textos que contribuem para que vejamos a unidade de seus trabalhos; indicando os avanços dados pelo autor desde os primeiros escritos até a sua obra mais acabada, a História da arte da antiguidade (Geschichte der Kunst des Altertums). A abordagem dos textos aqui selecionados visa apresentar a estruturação do pensamento de Winckelmann desde suas obras seminais até o seu ponto de maior contração conceitual. Esse caminho, a despeito de mudanças e progressos, nos mostra um crescimento, em boa parte coerente, da visão das artes e dos conceitos que dela são extraídos, na medida em que crescem os objetos contemplados. Visamos apresentar a formação de uma história que é, em grande parte, estética e que transfere a carga conceitual daquilo que se pode pensar como a ideia para o modelo plasmado da arte grega. Dos primeiros textos do autor à sua principal obra, o trajeto em direção à antiguidade vai trazer à tona questões que foram fundamentais para a disciplina filosófica da estética. Vemos formarem-se estruturas de abordagem da arte e de sua história que serão sempre subsidiárias da relação direta com o objeto. É na leitura de textos que melhor apresentam esse trajeto que se expõe a formação de um modo de operar que consegue extrair conceitos da obra de arte e suas consequências que baseamos o todo desse trabalho. Sua história, em sendo uma estética, teve desdobramentos dos mais diversos e marcou o debate que relacionava as artes com a filosofia e a história no século XVIII. / This thesis is an enquiry of Winckelmanns works that aims to the presentation of the structures of seeing that had arose as an approach to the works of art and that became the conceptual basis of a history of art that is in fact an aesthetical construction. From his first works, that had been written when the author was a librarian at Nöthnitz to the main works of the roman period, we tried to show a path that is to be thought as attached to the work of art, a contemplation of the arts that does not make great moves without the direct experience of beauty. Beauty comes from the transcendence of a norm to be embodied in the immanence of some works of ancient art that have reached the conceptual beauty in the materiality of the earthly world. The way of doing that, has been constructed, with a surprisingly coherence of some aspects of his theory and with some paradigm changes around the possibilities of seeing. In the major work History of the art of antiquity the tools that were to be acquired in a sort of relationship with the arts of the past that allows the spectator to see towards the embodied surface of the work of art are linked to a dynamics of historical possibilities that arose in the internal movements of societies but the criteria that elects the works is always to be thought as an aesthetic movement. Winckelmann, as an art thinker, established some movements of seeing and concepts that were in the basis of the newborn discipline of aesthetics. His history is as an aesthetics in form of history, and the consequences of that were proliferous, as can be seen in the flourishing debates of the binding of art, philosophy and history in the end of the eighteenth century.

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Habilitationsschrift--Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Berlin. / Bibliography: p. 329-342.

Esta dissertação busca apresentar uma leitura do ensaio A teoria do romance, de Georg Lukács, atentando para o nexo formulado pelo autor entre a forma romance e a modernidade. Para este objetivo, procurou-se retraçar os momentos de diálogo que essa obra estabelece com a teoria do romance de Friedrich Schlegel. Não se trata de uma tentativa de rastrear as influências que por ventura estejam presentes no ensaio de Lukács, mas de mostrar como A teoria do romance pode ser reconstituída a partir das críticas à teoria do romance do romantismo. Pretende-se expor como a investigação da forma romance, essa forma que como nenhuma outra expressa o desabrigo transcendental, consiste para Lukács em uma via de acesso e crítica à experiência de alienação que vigora no mundo moderno. / This dissertation aims to present a reading of the essay A theory of the novel, by Georg Lukács, paying special attention to the link between the novel form and modernity formulated by the author. To this end, the moments of dialogue that Lukács work establishes with the theory of the novel of Friedrich Schlegel were retraced. It is not an attempt to track influences that may be present in the essay, but to show how The theory of the novel can be reconstructed from the critiques of the romantic theory of the novel. We intend to point out how the investigation of the novel form, the form that like no other expresses the transcendental homelessness, consists for Lukács in a gateway to and critique of the experience of alienation that takes place in the modern world.

Esta dissertação busca apresentar uma leitura do ensaio A teoria do romance, de Georg Lukács, atentando para o nexo formulado pelo autor entre a forma romance e a modernidade. Para este objetivo, procurou-se retraçar os momentos de diálogo que essa obra estabelece com a teoria do romance de Friedrich Schlegel. Não se trata de uma tentativa de rastrear as influências que por ventura estejam presentes no ensaio de Lukács, mas de mostrar como A teoria do romance pode ser reconstituída a partir das críticas à teoria do romance do romantismo. Pretende-se expor como a investigação da forma romance, essa forma que como nenhuma outra expressa o desabrigo transcendental, consiste para Lukács em uma via de acesso e crítica à experiência de alienação que vigora no mundo moderno. / This dissertation aims to present a reading of the essay A theory of the novel, by Georg Lukács, paying special attention to the link between the novel form and modernity formulated by the author. To this end, the moments of dialogue that Lukács work establishes with the theory of the novel of Friedrich Schlegel were retraced. It is not an attempt to track influences that may be present in the essay, but to show how The theory of the novel can be reconstructed from the critiques of the romantic theory of the novel. We intend to point out how the investigation of the novel form, the form that like no other expresses the transcendental homelessness, consists for Lukács in a gateway to and critique of the experience of alienation that takes place in the modern world.

Habilitationsschrift--Cologne. / Bibliography: p. 299-307.