 | Chaos and Cosmos: On the Image in Aesthetics and Art History Subjects: Art criticism -- Germany -- History -- 19th century; Art criticism -- Germany -- History -- 20th century; Aesthetics German -- 19th century; Aesthetics German -- 20th century; Object (Aesthetics) -- History -- 19th century; Object (Aesthetics) -- Histor; Writing in 1940, the prominent German art historian Erwin Panofsky asked, "How, then, is it possible to build up art history as a respectable scholarly discipline, if its objects come into being by an irrational and subjective process?" In Chaos and... Karen Lang is Associate Professor of Art History at the University of Southern California. |
