The paper discusses the relationship between art history/theory and art in recent decades, taking... more The paper discusses the relationship between art history/theory and art in recent decades, taking as a starting point a passage in Gian Paolo Lomazzo’s Idea del Tempio della Pittura where a fictional ideal painting is described, the realisation of which supposed the recourse to an “eclectic” procedure. It proposes that a Lomazzian-like model has been at work twice during this century, first in the case of the socialist realism and then in the case of postmodernism. It uses the example taken from Lomazzo in order to show how certain historiographic patterns may influence, or even shape artistic practice and argues that such a relationship may be said to exist between present-day art and the discipline of art history.
The paper discusses the relationship between art history/theory and art in recent decades, taking... more The paper discusses the relationship between art history/theory and art in recent decades, taking as a starting point a passage in Gian Paolo Lomazzo’s Idea del Tempio della Pittura where a fictional ideal painting is described, the realisation of which supposed the recourse to an “eclectic” procedure. It proposes that a Lomazzian-like model has been at work twice during this century, first in the case of the socialist realism and then in the case of postmodernism. It uses the example taken from Lomazzo in order to show how certain historiographic patterns may influence, or even shape artistic practice and argues that such a relationship may be said to exist between present-day art and the discipline of art history.
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