Against the affectless Iconology of Modern Art

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Alternative codes found

RIV/00216224:14210/16:00088634

Result on the web

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Against the affectless Iconology of Modern Art

Original language description

The affectivity of works of art and the affective response to them remain a difficult subject for art history and theory. Among the key issues for art history and theory are questions such as: What constitutes the affectivity of the image? What role has the beholder's affective response in the experience of a painting or sculpture, and how is the affective dimension activated in the hermeneutical act of viewing and understanding? And, finally, how is the emotional effect of the art work to be related to the causal account of its making, or, what is the place of affective response in the interpretation of a work of art? The essay focuses on these issues by considering a few micro case studies through the prism of the emerging theory of affective response to images. The essay is written as an extended argument against some recent 'turn against affect' views in art history and theory and against 'affectless iconology' an interpretive practice which overlooks the affectivity of the work of art and/or denies it any place in the interpretation. The case studies, all concerned with figural work made in the period 1910-12, analyse several distinct scenarios of relation between the affective response and the meaning (or intention) of the work in question. They demonstrate how literary and other cultural associations the works possess are grounded in and/or are accessible through the beholder's affective response in multiple ways.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_x - Unclassified - Peer-reviewed scientific article (Jimp, Jsc and Jost)

CEP classification

AL - Art, architecture, cultural heritage

OECD FORD branch

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Project

Result was created during the realization of more than one project. More information in the Projects tab.

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year

2016

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Umění

ISSN

0049-5123

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

64

Issue of the periodical within the volume

1

Country of publishing house

CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC

Number of pages

17

Pages from-to

2-18

UT code for WoS article

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-84987942256