Christopher S Wood
Biographic Data
| ID | 3680939 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Christopher S Wood |
| GIVEN NAMES | Christopher S |
| FAMILY NAME | Wood |
| SIGNATURE | WOOD C S |
| AFFILIATIONS | New York University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8337-876X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 25 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1988 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Folk Art, Hausfleiß , and Hausindustrie
Points aveugles en histoire de l’art: Une discussion entre Claudia Brittenham, Yukio Lippit, Sam Rose et Z. S. Strother, menée par Christopher S. Wood
Nous avons ici été invités à réfléchir aux métaphores de la connaissance impliquant la vision, la lumière et l’absence de lumière : éclairage ou illumination, perspective, lucidité ; obscurité, opacité, points aveugles. Selon une hypothèse posée dans des débats récents, la fonction la plus impérieuse de l’art, dans sa forme « contemporaine » voire depuis l’avènement du modernisme, est de conférer de la visibilité à des sujets privés de représenta…
The Whisperers: Invidious Perspectives in Trecento Painting
Folk Art: Artistic and Scientific Works from the First Congress on Folk Arts, Prague, 1928
Kubler, Spratling, and Quetzalcoatl
When George Kubler says that so few “native art motifs” persisted beyond the conquest that it is more correct to speak of an extinction than a survival, he is signalling his own “realist” approach to the question. He implies that those modern writers who speak of survival are presenting the effects of the conquest in an excessively positive light.1 Succumbing to wishful thinking, they too eagerly attribute perseverance, resourcefulness, and adapt…
The dancer in and out of character: Tiepolo, Canova, Degas
Under the influence
The key again is that the debtor must be persuaded to speak in her own voice. The system will not work if debtors must always be compelled to pay. And this is the heart of the matter: “influence” is something that may always be happening, but it is not realized until the one influenced enunciates the relation. Influence is an owning up to a state of incomplete self-ownership. “Influence” is a magical-astrological obfuscation when it functions wit…
Panofsky in Munich, 1967
Panofsky in Munich, 1967 Christopher S. Wood A prize is supposed to honor the recipient. But often the recipient, just by accepting the prize, honors the prize-bestowing institution. Especially a damaged or disgraced institution, for example the German university in the twentieth century. Many German professors who had stayed at their posts right through the Nazi years and on into the 1950s and 60s craved personal reconciliation with the Jewish c…
Image and Thing, A Modern Romance
This paper argues that the "anthropomorphizing" discourses that attribute agency to images and things, stressing their efficacy and power, are motivated by a perception of a lack in the artwork, or in art itself
A Questionnaire on Materialisms
Recent philosophical tendencies of "Actor-Network Theory," "Object-Oriented Ontology," and "Speculative Realism" have profoundly challenged the centrality of subjectivity in the humanities, and many artists and curators, particularly in the UK, Germany, and the United States, appear deeply influenced by this shift from epistemology to ontology. October editors asked artists, historians, and philosophers invested in these projects-from Graham Harm…
Source and trace
Dromenon
Dromenon" was and is the rubric governing the fourth and final floor of Aby Warburg's Library. The word means "the thing done," "the action," and in the context of the Greek Mysteries referred to rites, as opposed to words and images. In the Warburg Library in London, dromenon covers law, social institutions, folklore, and customs, among which Warburg located politics. This essay is in large part a reflection on what Warburg understood by politic…
Introduction: Warburg's Library and Its Legacy
In this introduction to a Common Knowledge special issue on the Warburg Institute, the authors argue that the Institute remains today - as it has been, in different forms, for almost a century - one of Europe's central institutions for the study of cultural history. At once a rich and uniquely organized library, a center for doctoral and postdoctoral research, and a teaching faculty, the Institute was first envisioned by Aby Warburg, a pioneering…
Reception and the Classics
This essay was delivered as an envoi to the conference. As a talk it was meant to dispatch the audience: to liberate them from the spell cast by the conference and send them back into the world, free to assess and broadcast its achievement. In its published state the talk loses this performative quality. But even a published envoi, I hope, retains some of the privileges of paratextuality. I will not comment on the papers systematically, but rathe…
The votive scenario
Anachronic Renaissance
Plural temporality of the work of art -- "The image of the image of Our Lady" -- What is substitution? -- An antique statue of Christ -- The plebeian pleasure of anachronism -- Architectural models -- Double origins of the Christian temple -- Icon maintenance -- Fashion in painting -- Ancient painting -- Substitution symbolized -- Author and acheiropoieton -- Antiquity of buildings overrated -- Non-actual histories of architecture -- Temples pain…
Countermagical Combinations by Dosso Dossi
Maximilian I as Archeologist
Emperor Maximilian I was intensely engaged with material relics of the ancient Roman and medieval German past. Maximilian’s historical imagination, creative and participatory rather than objective and distancing, guided his own monumental projects. This essay analyzes, among other episodes, the quest for the bones of the historical Siegfried in Worms and an apparently archeological drawing by Albrecht Dürer
"Riegl's "Mache
Die Fuggerkapelle bei St. Anna in Augsburg
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The Age of Dürer and Holbein: German Drawings, 1400-1550 . John Rowlands, Giulia Bartrum
The End of the History of Art
In Defense of Images: Two Local Rejoinders to the Zwinglian Iconoclasm
The End of the History of Art
Michael Pacher and the Fate of the Altarpiece in Renaissance Germany
A Questionnaire on Materialisms
Recent philosophical tendencies of "Actor-Network Theory," "Object-Oriented Ontology," and "Speculative Realism" have profoundly challenged the centrality of subjectivity in the humanities, and many artists and curators, particularly in the UK, Germany, and the United States, appear deeply influenced by this shift from epistemology to ontology. October editors asked artists, historians, and philosophers invested in these projects-from Graham Harm…
Image and Thing, A Modern Romance
This paper argues that the "anthropomorphizing" discourses that attribute agency to images and things, stressing their efficacy and power, are motivated by a perception of a lack in the artwork, or in art itself
"Riegl's "Mache
In Defense of Images: Two Local Rejoinders to the Zwinglian Iconoclasm
The End of the History of Art
Michael Pacher and the Fate of the Altarpiece in Renaissance Germany
The End of the History of Art
The Age of Dürer and Holbein: German Drawings, 1400-1550 . John Rowlands, Giulia Bartrum
Die Fuggerkapelle bei St. Anna in Augsburg
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
"Riegl's "Mache
Maximilian I as Archeologist
Emperor Maximilian I was intensely engaged with material relics of the ancient Roman and medieval German past. Maximilian’s historical imagination, creative and participatory rather than objective and distancing, guided his own monumental projects. This essay analyzes, among other episodes, the quest for the bones of the historical Siegfried in Worms and an apparently archeological drawing by Albrecht Dürer
Countermagical Combinations by Dosso Dossi
Anachronic Renaissance
Plural temporality of the work of art -- "The image of the image of Our Lady" -- What is substitution? -- An antique statue of Christ -- The plebeian pleasure of anachronism -- Architectural models -- Double origins of the Christian temple -- Icon maintenance -- Fashion in painting -- Ancient painting -- Substitution symbolized -- Author and acheiropoieton -- Antiquity of buildings overrated -- Non-actual histories of architecture -- Temples pain…
Reception and the Classics
This essay was delivered as an envoi to the conference. As a talk it was meant to dispatch the audience: to liberate them from the spell cast by the conference and send them back into the world, free to assess and broadcast its achievement. In its published state the talk loses this performative quality. But even a published envoi, I hope, retains some of the privileges of paratextuality. I will not comment on the papers systematically, but rathe…
The votive scenario
Dromenon
Dromenon" was and is the rubric governing the fourth and final floor of Aby Warburg's Library. The word means "the thing done," "the action," and in the context of the Greek Mysteries referred to rites, as opposed to words and images. In the Warburg Library in London, dromenon covers law, social institutions, folklore, and customs, among which Warburg located politics. This essay is in large part a reflection on what Warburg understood by politic…
Introduction: Warburg's Library and Its Legacy
In this introduction to a Common Knowledge special issue on the Warburg Institute, the authors argue that the Institute remains today - as it has been, in different forms, for almost a century - one of Europe's central institutions for the study of cultural history. At once a rich and uniquely organized library, a center for doctoral and postdoctoral research, and a teaching faculty, the Institute was first envisioned by Aby Warburg, a pioneering…
Source and trace
Panofsky in Munich, 1967
Panofsky in Munich, 1967 Christopher S. Wood A prize is supposed to honor the recipient. But often the recipient, just by accepting the prize, honors the prize-bestowing institution. Especially a damaged or disgraced institution, for example the German university in the twentieth century. Many German professors who had stayed at their posts right through the Nazi years and on into the 1950s and 60s craved personal reconciliation with the Jewish c…
Image and Thing, A Modern Romance
This paper argues that the "anthropomorphizing" discourses that attribute agency to images and things, stressing their efficacy and power, are motivated by a perception of a lack in the artwork, or in art itself
A Questionnaire on Materialisms
Recent philosophical tendencies of "Actor-Network Theory," "Object-Oriented Ontology," and "Speculative Realism" have profoundly challenged the centrality of subjectivity in the humanities, and many artists and curators, particularly in the UK, Germany, and the United States, appear deeply influenced by this shift from epistemology to ontology. October editors asked artists, historians, and philosophers invested in these projects-from Graham Harm…
Under the influence
The key again is that the debtor must be persuaded to speak in her own voice. The system will not work if debtors must always be compelled to pay. And this is the heart of the matter: “influence” is something that may always be happening, but it is not realized until the one influenced enunciates the relation. Influence is an owning up to a state of incomplete self-ownership. “Influence” is a magical-astrological obfuscation when it functions wit…
Kubler, Spratling, and Quetzalcoatl
When George Kubler says that so few “native art motifs” persisted beyond the conquest that it is more correct to speak of an extinction than a survival, he is signalling his own “realist” approach to the question. He implies that those modern writers who speak of survival are presenting the effects of the conquest in an excessively positive light.1 Succumbing to wishful thinking, they too eagerly attribute perseverance, resourcefulness, and adapt…
The dancer in and out of character: Tiepolo, Canova, Degas
Folk Art: Artistic and Scientific Works from the First Congress on Folk Arts, Prague, 1928
Folk Art, Hausfleiß , and Hausindustrie
Points aveugles en histoire de l’art: Une discussion entre Claudia Brittenham, Yukio Lippit, Sam Rose et Z. S. Strother, menée par Christopher S. Wood
Nous avons ici été invités à réfléchir aux métaphores de la connaissance impliquant la vision, la lumière et l’absence de lumière : éclairage ou illumination, perspective, lucidité ; obscurité, opacité, points aveugles. Selon une hypothèse posée dans des débats récents, la fonction la plus impérieuse de l’art, dans sa forme « contemporaine » voire depuis l’avènement du modernisme, est de conférer de la visibilité à des sujets privés de représenta…
The Whisperers: Invidious Perspectives in Trecento Painting
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