ART 1102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Giorgio Vasari, Immanuel Kant, Johann Joachim Winckelmann
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Types of analysis/ methodologies: formal, stylistic, iconographic, contextual, psychological, feminist/gender, post-colonial. The beginnings of art history were in the 16th century by an extremely influential giorgio vasari. He was very interested in biography, something that isn"t done very often in contemporary art history. He also ranked artists based on qualities which is not done. He created the first encyclopedia for the history of art and in that he started to look at art history as an artistic process. He looked at the art as if it were floating away from society rather than contextualizing it. Interested as art history as a series of styles. He used formal analysis to compare and contrast pieces of art and where what art may fit in history. He only spoke of historical transformation through formalism. He was inspired by new findings through archeology. Thought about: material, technique, content (not subject matter but the formal aspects and how they are articulated in the works), function,