Engramme
Positionen der Kunstgeschichte
The book series ‘Engramme’, published by the Swiss Institute for Art Research (SIK-ISEA), contributes to the historiography of art history. Each volume is dedicated to the work of a major protagonist of the discipline in its various forms, including art criticism, but who has since been forgotten for various reasons. The volumes are divided into two parts: the first part contains essays that present the work of the art historian from a contemporary perspective, with a particular focus on the methodological peculiarities, and explore where it might prove compatible with current professional discourses. The second part presents a selection of original texts, each preceded by a short commentary by the editors. The commentary provides information on the circumstances of the text’s origin and its editorial history, as well as pointing out aspects of content or method that can be considered particularly characteristic. Responsible for the selection of the texts and their publication by SIK-ISEA are Roger Fayet and Marianne Wackernagel.
The series is aimed at both academic specialists and a wider audience interested in art and cultural history.
Contact
Schweizerisches Institut für Kunstwissenschaft (SIK-ISEA), Zürich / Lausanne
PD Dr. Roger Fayet, Direktor, Zürich
Marianne Wackernagel, lic. phil., Leiterin Wissenschaftsforum, Zürich
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Homepage Schweizerisches Institut für Kunstwissenschaft (SIK-ISEA)
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Gotthard Jedlicka
Gotthard Jedlicka (1899-1965), who wrote important monographs on Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Pieter Bruegel, Edouard Manet and Max Gubler, was one of the most influential figures in Swiss art history, not least thanks to his extensive publishing activities in the Swiss and foreign daily press and specialist journals from the end of the 1920s. Jedlicka's approach was to focus on the examination of the individual work of art, and he believed that the contemplation of a work of art must always involve the 'whole person'. In other words, he contended that this required not only intellectual expertise, but also feelings, hunches and intuition.
