The Historian and the Art Historian

Rabb, Theodore Κ.; Allsopp, Bruce; Panofsky, Erwin; White, C.; López-Rey, José; Weinsinger, Arthur S.; Coley, W. B.; Paulson, Ronald

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“…They can also be documents of other academic disciplines, to be studied not for their own sake, but in order to illuminate, for example, other cultural monuments. 14 An area in which interdisciplinary collaboration is, however, manifestly playing an increasingly significant role, is theatre iconography. 12 For many cultural historians of Warburg's time, not least Burckhardt, great works of art were surviving witnesses to the spirit of bygone ages.…”

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“…But as late as 1966, John Hale felt it necessary to draw attention to the lack of cooperation between historians and art historians; 13 and Theodore Rabb, an active participant in the debate concerning the interpretation and use by historians of visual art 'as a special class of evidence, shaped by imagination as well as tradition and purpose', notes a recent decrease in interdisciplinary activity in this area with respect to subsequently developed interactive areas of historical research. 14 An area in which interdisciplinary collaboration is, however, manifestly playing an increasingly significant role, is theatre iconography. The theatrical arts, whether manifested as drama, music, court festival, or in some other form of performance, are characterized by their ephemeral nature.…”

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Aby Warburg's ‘Costumi teatrali’ (1895) and the Art Historical Foundations of Theatre Iconography

Katritzky¹

1999

Theatre Research International

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In 1895, Aby Warburg drew attention to ways in which information of theatre historical significance can be gained from visual images, in an article which outlines a clear methodology for their evaluation as historical documents, based on a comparative approach in the context of the surviving documentation concerning the event under investigation as a whole, the Florentine intermedi of 1589. ‘Probably the most described theatrical production in history’, these intermedi were especially devised to embellish dramatic performances by professional commedia dell'arte actors (La Zingana and Pazzia of Isabella) and amateur players (La Pellegrina) which were intended by the Medici as the greatest attraction of the celebrations in honour of the wedding of Ferdinande I de'Medici to Christine de Lorraine, and recognized by both contemporaries and historians as a highpoint of European court festival.

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Aby Warburg's ‘Costumi teatrali’ (1895) and the Art Historical Foundations of Theatre Iconography

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1999

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War and Peace in Feng Zikai's Wartime Cartoons

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1990

Modern China

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Despite repeated calls by some historians for increased dialogue between history and art history, few historical works have paid sufficient attention to art as a valuable, legitimate historical source (Rabb, 1973;Paret and Lewis, 1985). There is no question that art plays an important part in our life. It embodies a rich part of human aesthetic and imaginative experience. Studying art will illuminate areas of past history that have been left untouched by documentary evidence. Art -be it architecture, painting, or iconography -is as important a historical material as are written statements.

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“…5 Theodore Rabb submits that artists fall within three categories: those interested in commenting explicitly on their own age, those who give insight through the themes of their art but only because of the nature of their position and patronage, and finally those who make a personal statement on the eternal truths. 6 In contrast, Pablo Zelaya Sierra divides modern artists into those who are concerned with imitating the natural, and those \vho seek progress through impressionism and cubism and whose emphasis is on order and discipline and concern with la\vs of the universe. 7 Still another scholar, Leopoldo Castedo, posits that there are two major groupings.…”

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