Basic concepts of art history. Velflin G.

“Basic concepts of art history” is one of the main works of Velflin, first published in 1915 and still regularly reprinted in all leading languages ​​of the world, since its importance for students, art historians and just people interested in theory and art history, It is impossible to overestimate.

in this work, which has become a kind of “sacred book” of a formal method in art criticism, the author proposes and describes his theory “art without a name” - a theory requiring the study of works of art “outside the personalities”, in full Turn off from the names and personalities of their authors.

for the traditional art history, not least based precisely on the connection of the biography of the Creator with his individual “creative handwriting”, the work of the Velflin turned out to be a shock and almost awarded. However, subsequently, it formed the basis of a different, more general and large -scale scientific view, without which it would be impossible to imagine a contemporary art history and the history of art.