ニコラウス・ペヴスナーによる18世紀イングランド美術研究 : 「囚われることのない精神」とピクチュアレスクの問題

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  • Nikolaus Pevsner on Eighteenth-century English Art : His Notions of “Detachment” and the Picturesque
  • ニコラウス ペヴスナー ニ ヨル 18セイキ イングランド ビジュツ ケンキュウ トラワレル コト ノ ナイ セイシン ト ピクチュアレスク ノ モンダイ

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Sir Nikolaus Pevsner (1902-83), a twentieth-century giant in architectural history, considered the art of architecture to be thoroughly a manifestation of the Zeitgeist. David Watkin, a pupil of Pevsner at Cambridge, deals with Pevsner’s historiography in Morality and Architecture (1977) and has critically noted in Pevsner’s writings the clear assumption of the existence of the “spirit” or “essence” pervading and dominating all intellectual, artistic, and social activity of a particular age. Watkin feels Pevsner’s emphasis on the spirit of a particular age is based on his denial of the active roles of individual artists as creative forces, and on his firm belief that forms of buildings are mere manifestations of the spirit or essence of an age, as their creators are merely mediums through which the spirit of an age is expressed. While Pevsner’s historiography, which takes up artistic creation simply as a manifestation of events outside the artistic sphere, has been questioned and criticized, it is this very aspect of Pevsner’s scholarship which eventually led him into the complexity of English artistic culture, and above all to the integration of the attitude of “detachment,” i.e., the subjective view of an individual artist or architect, into the history of English art and architecture. Pevsner’s emphasis on the spirit of the age or the Zeitgeist, often considered as descending from Burckhardt and Wölfflin and the tradition of Hegelian Geistesgeschichte, finds the “essence” or “real nature” of English art in the ideas of the artists and architects who created them. Pevsner’s triumph in extended studies of English art, especially of the spirit of “detachment” as an essential part of the Englishness of English art and the Picturesque, is entirely due to this above-mentioned approach. Unhindered by objective features of works of art and architecture and emphasizing the role of the Zeitgeist in English artistic creativity, Pevsner was able to identify the very Englishness of English art in the subjectivity, attitude, or mind of the individual artist and architect.

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  • 聖学院大学論叢

    聖学院大学論叢 第18巻 (第1号), 71-91, 2005-10

    上尾 : 聖学院大学

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