THE PRAGUE LINGUISTIC CIRCLE’S CONTRIBUTION TO ART HISTORY
THE PRAGUE LINGUISTIC CIRCLE’S CONTRIBUTION TO ART HISTORY

Summary/Abstract: The present paper deals with the impact of the Prague linguistic circle on art history. Following V. N.Volšinov’s distinction between two notions of language, i.e. language regarded as “energeia” on the one hand and language conceived of as “ergon” on the other, it analyzes the application of W. von Humboldt’s and B. Croce’s idea of language as an expression to the history of art by J. Schlosser and H. Sedlmayr and compares it with the influence of J. Mukařovský’s and R. Jakobson’s ideas on art historical writing from E. Gombrich to the semiotics of the history of art.

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