Alexander Conze, “On the Origin of the Visual Arts”, Lecture held on July 30, 1896 [in the Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences]. Originally published as ‘Über den Ursprung der bildenden Kunst‘, Sitzungsberichte der Königlich Preußischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin. Gesammtsitzung vom 11. Februar 1897, Berlin: Reichsdruckerei 1897, pp. 98-109.
With the discoveries made by Schliemann, the increasing evidence from other cultures around the world and a subtle analysis as we have it in Riegl’s Stilfragen, one can now clearly see that the geometric style was not the earliest to thrive in Greece. The earliest impulses of art seem to have consis...
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| description | With the discoveries made by Schliemann, the increasing evidence from other cultures around the world and a subtle analysis as we have it in Riegl’s Stilfragen, one can now clearly see that the geometric style was not the earliest to thrive in Greece. The earliest impulses of art seem to have consisted in the attempt to capture the living image of an object or action ‘images precisely gathered in the memory’ (Joshua Reynolds), and not the urge to sit before something and make a picture of it. They had a common root in the language of sounds as ‘speech in terms of visible forms’. Together with the appeal of rhythm and symmetry this might well be inborn, but also included a technical aspect in which humanity differs from bees by further developing variations. Human and animal imagery did not arise in a naturalist vein but within the dictates of stylistic schemata with a linearity preventing plant forms and reminding us that landscape only arrived later. There was more than one source leading primitive art to geometric motifs. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-fc4a86e635fe4efc99de8112996c8eb12022-12-22T01:45:08ZengDepartment of Art History, University of BirminghamJournal of Art Historiography2042-47522012-12-0177KJ/1Alexander Conze, “On the Origin of the Visual Arts”, Lecture held on July 30, 1896 [in the Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences]. Originally published as ‘Über den Ursprung der bildenden Kunst‘, Sitzungsberichte der Königlich Preußischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin. Gesammtsitzung vom 11. Februar 1897, Berlin: Reichsdruckerei 1897, pp. 98-109.Karl Johns (trans & ed.)Alexander ConzeWith the discoveries made by Schliemann, the increasing evidence from other cultures around the world and a subtle analysis as we have it in Riegl’s Stilfragen, one can now clearly see that the geometric style was not the earliest to thrive in Greece. The earliest impulses of art seem to have consisted in the attempt to capture the living image of an object or action ‘images precisely gathered in the memory’ (Joshua Reynolds), and not the urge to sit before something and make a picture of it. They had a common root in the language of sounds as ‘speech in terms of visible forms’. Together with the appeal of rhythm and symmetry this might well be inborn, but also included a technical aspect in which humanity differs from bees by further developing variations. Human and animal imagery did not arise in a naturalist vein but within the dictates of stylistic schemata with a linearity preventing plant forms and reminding us that landscape only arrived later. There was more than one source leading primitive art to geometric motifs.http://arthistoriography.files.wordpress.com/2012/12/johns-conzeorigin.pdforigins of artgeometric styleplant ornamentgeometric ornamentbraid ornamentGottfried SemperAlois Riegl. |
| spellingShingle | Karl Johns (trans & ed.) Alexander Conze Alexander Conze, “On the Origin of the Visual Arts”, Lecture held on July 30, 1896 [in the Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences]. Originally published as ‘Über den Ursprung der bildenden Kunst‘, Sitzungsberichte der Königlich Preußischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin. Gesammtsitzung vom 11. Februar 1897, Berlin: Reichsdruckerei 1897, pp. 98-109. Journal of Art Historiography origins of art geometric style plant ornament geometric ornament braid ornament Gottfried Semper Alois Riegl. |
| title | Alexander Conze, “On the Origin of the Visual Arts”, Lecture held on July 30, 1896 [in the Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences]. Originally published as ‘Über den Ursprung der bildenden Kunst‘, Sitzungsberichte der Königlich Preußischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin. Gesammtsitzung vom 11. Februar 1897, Berlin: Reichsdruckerei 1897, pp. 98-109. |
| title_full | Alexander Conze, “On the Origin of the Visual Arts”, Lecture held on July 30, 1896 [in the Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences]. Originally published as ‘Über den Ursprung der bildenden Kunst‘, Sitzungsberichte der Königlich Preußischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin. Gesammtsitzung vom 11. Februar 1897, Berlin: Reichsdruckerei 1897, pp. 98-109. |
| title_fullStr | Alexander Conze, “On the Origin of the Visual Arts”, Lecture held on July 30, 1896 [in the Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences]. Originally published as ‘Über den Ursprung der bildenden Kunst‘, Sitzungsberichte der Königlich Preußischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin. Gesammtsitzung vom 11. Februar 1897, Berlin: Reichsdruckerei 1897, pp. 98-109. |
| title_full_unstemmed | Alexander Conze, “On the Origin of the Visual Arts”, Lecture held on July 30, 1896 [in the Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences]. Originally published as ‘Über den Ursprung der bildenden Kunst‘, Sitzungsberichte der Königlich Preußischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin. Gesammtsitzung vom 11. Februar 1897, Berlin: Reichsdruckerei 1897, pp. 98-109. |
| title_short | Alexander Conze, “On the Origin of the Visual Arts”, Lecture held on July 30, 1896 [in the Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences]. Originally published as ‘Über den Ursprung der bildenden Kunst‘, Sitzungsberichte der Königlich Preußischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin. Gesammtsitzung vom 11. Februar 1897, Berlin: Reichsdruckerei 1897, pp. 98-109. |
| title_sort | alexander conze on the origin of the visual arts lecture held on july 30 1896 in the royal prussian academy of sciences originally published as uber den ursprung der bildenden kunst sitzungsberichte der koniglich preussischen akademie der wissenschaften zu berlin gesammtsitzung vom 11 februar 1897 berlin reichsdruckerei 1897 pp 98 109 |
| topic | origins of art geometric style plant ornament geometric ornament braid ornament Gottfried Semper Alois Riegl. |
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