Basic concepts of art history. Völflin G.

Henry Valflin can rightly be called one of the most famous and influential art historians. His works brilliantly summarize the long process of the formation of the history of art as an independent scientific discipline.

“The basic concepts of the history of art” are its fundamental work, which saw the light in 1915, but, surprisingly, to this day has not lost its relevance.

The method of formal-stylistic analysis of works of art developed by Völflin presented the art history by his own scientific tools not borrowed from related areas. For more than a hundred years now, the “analytical method” of Valflin underlies the preparation of art historians around the world, and a fairly easy and clear manner of exposing his works and the amazing erudition of the author make this book fascinating reading for everyone who is interested in art and wants to learn how to look at it through a professional Optics.

In the present edition of the Basic Concepts of the History of Arts, they are first published in the new edition of the classical translation of Adrian Frankovsky.