Rigorous Study of Art

Abstract

A bit further on one reads: In order to be more certain of attaining this goal, the first, historical, section has been furnished with a second, systematic, section as a counterpart.2 This arrangement is all the more indicative because it reveals not only the aims but also the limits of an endeavor which was so epoch-making in its time. And, in fact, Wolfflin did not succeed in his attempt to use formal analysis (which he placed at the center of his method) to remedy the bleak condition in which his discipline found itself at the end of the nineteenth cen-

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