The Architecture of Art History: A Historiography (History of Art and Architecture)

"What is the place of architecture in the history of art? Why has it been at times central to the discipline, and at other times seemingly so marginal? What is its place now? Many disciplines have a stake in the history of architecture - sociology, anthropology, human geography, to name a few. This book deals with perhaps the most influential tradition of all - art history - examining how the relation between the disciplines of art history and architectural history has waxed and waned over the last one hundred and fifty years. In this highly original study, Mark Crinson and Richard J. Williams point to a decline in the importance attributed to the role of architecture in art history over the last century - which has happened without crisis or self-reflection. The book explores the problem in relation to key art historical approaches, from formalism, to feminism, to the social history of art, and in key institutions from the Museum of Modern Art, to the journal October. Among the key thinkers explored are Banham, Baxandall, Giedion, Panofsky, Pevsner, Pollock, Riegl, Rowe, Steinberg, Wittkower and Wölfflin. The book will provoke debate on the historiography and present state of the discipline of art history, and it makes a powerful case for the reconsideration of architecture."--Bloomsbury Publishing. What is the place of architecture in the history of art? Why has it been at times central to the discipline, and at other times seemingly so marginal? What is its place now?Many disciplines have a stake in the history of architecture - sociology, anthropology, human geography, to name a few. This book deals with perhaps the most influential tradition of all - art history - examining how the relation between the disciplines of art history and architectural history has waxed and waned over the last one hundred and fifty years.In this highly original study, Mark Crinson and Richard J. Williams point to a decline in the importance attributed to the role of architecture in art history over the last century - which has happened without crisis or self-reflection. The book explores the problem in relation to key art historical approaches, from formalism, to feminism, to the social history of art, and in key institutions from the Museum of Modern Art, to the journal__October.__Among the key thinkers explored are Banham, Baxandall, Giedion, Panofsky, Pevsner, Pollock, Riegl, Rowe, Steinberg, Wittkower and W�lfflin. The book will provoke debate on the historiography and present state of the discipline of art history, and it makes a powerful case for the reconsideration of architecture. Title Page 4 Copyright Page 5 Contents 6 List of illustrations 7 Photographic credits 9 Acknowledgements 10 Introduction 12 Chapter 1: The German tradition 24 Wölfflin’s formalism 27 The painterly 30 Riegl and Kunstwollen 34 Panofsky’s homologies 36 Giedion – history and the present 39 Chapter 2: The architectural unconscious – Steinberg and Baxandall 44 Steinberg’s spatial turn 47 Baxandall – architecture refused 54 Chapter 3: Modernism – Institutional and phenomenal 64 Modernism’s syntheses 66 Greenberg – the limits of Modernism 70 Rowe – seeing depth 72 Chapter 4: From image to environment – Reyner Banham’s architecture 86 The New Brutalism 88 The architecture of the well-tempered environment 93 Los Angeles: The architecture of four ecologies 98 ‘The trouble with Reyner Banham is that the fashionable sonofabitch doesn’t have to live here’ 102 Chapter 5: The New Art History 106 Block 112 The painting of modern life 115 The spaces of femininity 120 Chapter 6: October’s architecture 124 Architecture and institutions 136 Conclusion 142 Notes 146 Introduction 146 Chapter 1 149 Chapter 2 153 Chapter 3 158 Chapter 4 163 Chapter 5 167 Chapter 6 171 Index 176 Many disciplines have a stake in the history of architecture - sociology, anthropology, human geography, to name a few. This book deals with perhaps the most influential tradition of all - art history - examining how the relation between the disciplines of art history and architectural history has waxed and waned over the last one hundred and fifty years. In this study, Mark Crinson and Richard J. Williams point to a decline in the importance attributed to the role of architecture in art history over the last century - which has happened without crisis or self-reflection. The book explores the problem in relation to key art historical approaches, from formalism, to feminism, to the social history of art, and in key institutions from the Museum of Modern Art, to the journal October. Among the key thinkers explored are Banham, Baxandall, Giedion, Panofsky, Pevsner, Pollock, Riegl, Rowe, Steinberg, Wittkower and Woelfflin. The book will provoke debate on the historiography and present state of the discipline of art history, and it makes a powerful case for the reconsideration of architecture Many disciplines have a stake in the history of architecture ? sociology, anthropology, human geography, to name a few. This book deals with perhaps the most influential tradition of all ? art history ? examining how the relation between the disciplines of art history and architectural history has waxed and waned over the last one hundred and fifty years.0In this study, Mark Crinson and Richard J. Williams point to a decline in the importance attributed to the role of architecture in art history over the last century - which has happened without crisis or self-reflection. The book explores the problem in relation to key art historical approaches, from formalism, to feminism, to the social history of art, and in key institutions from the Museum of Modern Art, to the journal October. Among the key thinkers explored are Banham, Baxandall, Giedion, Panofsky, Pevsner, Pollock, Riegl, Rowe, Steinberg, Wittkower and Woelfflin. The book will provoke debate on the historiography and present state of the discipline of art history, and it makes a powerful case for the reconsideration of architecture