Die Lesbarkeit der Bilder als erkenntniskritische Kategorie der Kulturwissenschaft um 1900
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In: Zeitschrift für Kunstgeschichte, Vol. 81, No. 2, 01.07.2018, p. 231-241.
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T1 - Die Lesbarkeit der Bilder als erkenntniskritische Kategorie der Kulturwissenschaft um 1900
AU - Costa, Maria Teresa
PY - 2018/7/1
Y1 - 2018/7/1
N2 - In the last thirty years, the concept of legibility has become a topos in the humanities, referring to the act of reading freed from its usual connection with the written text, and concerning also images, traces, and constellations. No one so deeply understood this ‘non-literal’ reading as Walter Benjamin, whose oeuvre is crossed by the topic of the compenetration and coappartenance of image and text. In his epistemology, mental and material images are intended as things that must be read. This paper offers an interpretation of his concept of legibility through its comparison with the one given by Aby Warburg in his Mnemosyne-Atlas. Both authors wanted to analyze the relationship between image and word to study the language of emotions and gestures. Through the comparison of the two methods emerges a privileged viewpoint to understand legibility as a fundamental epistemological paradigm of Kulturwissenschaft around 1900.
AB - In the last thirty years, the concept of legibility has become a topos in the humanities, referring to the act of reading freed from its usual connection with the written text, and concerning also images, traces, and constellations. No one so deeply understood this ‘non-literal’ reading as Walter Benjamin, whose oeuvre is crossed by the topic of the compenetration and coappartenance of image and text. In his epistemology, mental and material images are intended as things that must be read. This paper offers an interpretation of his concept of legibility through its comparison with the one given by Aby Warburg in his Mnemosyne-Atlas. Both authors wanted to analyze the relationship between image and word to study the language of emotions and gestures. Through the comparison of the two methods emerges a privileged viewpoint to understand legibility as a fundamental epistemological paradigm of Kulturwissenschaft around 1900.
KW - Kunstwissenschaft
U2 - 10.1515/ZKG-2018-0016
DO - 10.1515/ZKG-2018-0016
M3 - Zeitschriftenaufsätze
VL - 81
SP - 231
EP - 241
JO - Zeitschrift für Kunstgeschichte
JF - Zeitschrift für Kunstgeschichte
SN - 0044-2992
IS - 2
ER -