From a better history to a better politics

• Autores: Otto Karl Werckmeister
• Localización: Art bulletin, ISSN 0004-3079, Vol. 77, Nº 3, 1995, págs. 388-391
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Part of a symposium on the relation between art and history. The writer discusses a political history of art, dealing with the key terms communism, fascism, and democracy as competing ideologies in post-World War I art. He contends that although new approaches to art-historical scholarship may be prompted by political, or at least ideological, concerns, their results must ultimately be acceptable to scholars of different political persuasions who may not care for the questions raised but, as long as they act in good faith, will deal with the answer on the basis of evidence. He also posits that an international political history of art in the 20th century depends on a comparative historical clarification of key political concepts, primarily political democracy, independent of the traditional aesthetic concerns of art communities, no matter how exalted their ideological extrapolations.