Figural Philology : Panofsky and the Science of Things.

Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- 1. Philological rationality and the constitution of the history of art -- 2. Archimedean points: Monuments as duration reservoirs -- Panofsky's Riegl -- Philological imperatives in Riegl's methods -- The curse and the blessing in the study of artworks -- Art history as Korrektur of monuments -- Riegl's Alterswert -- Kunstwollen and meaning -- Philological reproduction of past realities -- 3. Forms and figures: Two fundamental modes of pictorial production -- Forms and figures within the pictorial domain -- Figuration in the history of art -- The figural situation -- Figuration and meaning -- Forms and figures -- From the plastic to the pictorial -- 4. Pictorial validities in art and history -- Panofsky's Idea and the disclosure of the iconoclastic structure -- Ideas between truth and reality in Idea -- Auerbach's 'Figura': Plasticity and history -- 'Real and historical': The figural mechanics of validation -- Reality, value and truth: Two versions of realist argumentation -- Iconophilic method -- 5. Sub figuralitate historiæ -- The figure and the reality of the past -- Figural and historical meaning -- 6. Iconological space: Panofsky with Warburg -- Panofsky's historical space-time -- Simmel's historical time -- Warburg's art history and philology -- Warburg's philological gaze -- Vitalisms and archaism -- Iconology and philology -- 7. The figural synthesis of historical reality in the iconology table -- Synthesis -- Symbols, ideas and values -- From symbolical value to synthetic intuition -- Intuition and synthesis -- Figural synthesis -- 8. Philology's recollective habitus: Panofsky with Spitzer, Auerbach and Curtius -- The Aristotelian distinction between memory and recollection -- Two modes of memory -- The role of figures in recollection.

Humanism as a recollective activity -- Hylomorphist humanism -- Figural distinction: A model for the recollective disjunction -- Elastic hylomorphism -- 9. Figural content and the past as a res extensa -- Iconoclasm, iconism and the reality of the past -- The past reality of a work versus historical meaning -- The two unseen prototypes of the artwork -- Vanishing point and carrying surface: Spatialities of historical explication -- Past reality of works and the reality of the past -- The distance between the reality of the past and the historical reality of a work -- Nonseen and figured -- Conclusion: Towards a figural philology -- The domain -- Historical meaning, past reality, historical reality -- Philological production -- Figural synthesis -- Distinctive realism -- Untemporal history -- Moderate historicism -- Panofsky -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

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