2022/11/30 by Agnes Blaha, Blaha, Agnes
Arts and Humanities · Social Sciences · #Philosophy, Science, and History #Central European national history #Multidisciplinary Warburg-centric Studies
paper · doi:10.48352/uobxjah.00004131
Fritz Novotny was repeatedly described as a member of the New Vienna School. In my paper I argue that Novotny’s relation to this group is rather ambiguous because Novotny, in spite of all similarities in the descriptions of formal qualities, had a very different attitude towards the role of the individual artwork than Sedlmayr and Pächt. Instead of aiming at a definite decision whether or not to include Novotny in the New Vienna School, the article demonstrates that opinions on this question can be interpreted as the result of different academic traditions in the Anglo-American and the German-speaking scientific communities.