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Description of  The New Vienna School of Art History: Fulfilling the Promise of Analytic Holism (Refractions)

This book is an account of the theory and practice of practitioners of the so-called "second" or "younger" Viennese school associated with Hans Sedlmayr and Otto Pcht and their short-lived journal, Kunstwissenschaftliche Forschungen. It demonstrates the strong dependence of these writers on the work of Gestalt psychology which was emerging at the time. Gestalt theory emerges as the master key to interpreting Sedlmayr and Pchts ideas about art and history and how it affected their practices. Read more