Gottfried Boehm
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Gottfried Boehm (; born 1942) is a German
art historian Art history is the study of artistic works made throughout human history. Among other topics, it studies art’s formal qualities, its impact on societies and cultures, and how artistic styles have changed throughout history. Traditionally, the ...
and
philosopher Philosophy ('love of wisdom' in Ancient Greek) is a systematic study of general and fundamental questions concerning topics like existence, reason, knowledge, Value (ethics and social sciences), value, mind, and language. It is a rational an ...
.


Life

Boehm studied art history, philosophy and German in Cologne, Vienna and Heidelberg. He obtained his ''Promotion'' (doctorate) in philosophy in 1968 and his ''Habilitation'' in 1974 in art history. From 1975 to 1979 he taught art history at the
Ruhr-Universität Bochum The Ruhr University Bochum (, ) is a public research university located in the southern hills of the central Ruhr area, Bochum, Germany. It was founded in 1962 as the first new public university in Germany after World War II. Instruction began in ...
. In 1979 he was made professor of art history at the Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen. In 1986 Boehm moved to the
University of Basel The University of Basel (Latin: ''Universitas Basiliensis''; German: ''Universität Basel'') is a public research university in Basel, Switzerland. Founded on 4 April 1460, it is Switzerland's oldest university and among the world's oldest univ ...
, where since 2005 he has also been director of the Swiss national research project "Eikones / NCCR Iconic Criticism". In 1993-94 Gottfried Boehm was fellow of the Wiener Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen (Institute for Advanced Studies) and in 2001-02 fellow at the
Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin The Institute for Advanced Study in Berlin () is an interdisciplinary institute founded in 1981 in Grunewald, Berlin, Germany, dedicated to research projects in the natural and social sciences. It is modeled after the original IAS in Princeto ...
. Since 2006 he is a corresponding member of the Heidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaften.


Work

In his work Gottfried Boehm is particularly influenced by
hermeneutics Hermeneutics () is the theory and methodology of interpretation, especially the interpretation of biblical texts, wisdom literature, and philosophical texts. As necessary, hermeneutics may include the art of understanding and communication. ...
and
phenomenology Phenomenology may refer to: Art * Phenomenology (architecture), based on the experience of building materials and their sensory properties Philosophy * Phenomenology (Peirce), a branch of philosophy according to Charles Sanders Peirce (1839â ...
and by the hermeneutic thought of
Hans-Georg Gadamer Hans-Georg Gadamer (; ; 11 February 1900 â€“ 13 March 2002) was a German philosopher of the continental tradition, best known for his 1960 on hermeneutics, '' Truth and Method'' (''Wahrheit und Methode''). Life Family and early life Gad ...
. He has worked on the theory of art and perception in the
Renaissance The Renaissance ( , ) is a Periodization, period of history and a European cultural movement covering the 15th and 16th centuries. It marked the transition from the Middle Ages to modernity and was characterized by an effort to revive and sur ...
, the 19th and 20th centuries, on contemporary art and on general questions of modernity. Recently he has been particularly prominent for his contributions to the history and theory of images, introducing the theory of the iconic turn for the first time in the anthology ''Was ist ein Bild?'' from 1994. Beyond this he has advanced the concept of iconic difference. According to this concept, images convey meaning exclusively through visual means, unlike texts, which rely on the predicative model of language propositions. In this way, he rejects the possibility of reading images as texts, an approach introduced by the linguistic turn in semiotics and philosophy of language, advocating instead for images to "show" rather than "say." Gottfried Boehm is regarded, along with
Hans Belting Hans Belting (7 July 1935 – 10 January 2023) was a German art historian and media theorist with a focus on image science, and this with regard to contemporary art and to the Italian art of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. Biography Be ...
and Horst Bredekamp, as one of the leading theoreticians of art in the German-speaking world. Boehm is a prominent figure in the field of '' Bildwissenschaft'' ("image-science"). His account of ''Bildwissenschaft'' draws on
aesthetics Aesthetics (also spelled esthetics) is the branch of philosophy concerned with the nature of beauty and taste (sociology), taste, which in a broad sense incorporates the philosophy of art.Slater, B. H.Aesthetics ''Internet Encyclopedia of Ph ...
and the work of
Maurice Merleau-Ponty Maurice Jean Jacques Merleau-Ponty. ( ; ; 14 March 1908 – 3 May 1961) was a French phenomenological philosopher, strongly influenced by Edmund Husserl and Martin Heidegger. The constitution of meaning in human experience was his main interes ...
,
Hans-Georg Gadamer Hans-Georg Gadamer (; ; 11 February 1900 â€“ 13 March 2002) was a German philosopher of the continental tradition, best known for his 1960 on hermeneutics, '' Truth and Method'' (''Wahrheit und Methode''). Life Family and early life Gad ...
,
Hans Jonas Hans Jonas (; ; 10 May 1903 – 5 February 1993) was a German-born American philosopher. From 1955 to 1976 he was the Alvin Johnson Professor of Philosophy at the New School for Social Research in New York City. Biography Jonas was born in M ...
,
Arthur Danto Arthur Coleman Danto (January 1, 1924 – October 25, 2013) was an American art critic, philosopher, and professor at Columbia University. He was best known for having been a long-time art critic for ''The Nation'' and for his work in philosop ...
, Meyer Schapiro, Kurt Bauch and Max Imdahl. Boehm addresses questions around the
phenomenology Phenomenology may refer to: Art * Phenomenology (architecture), based on the experience of building materials and their sensory properties Philosophy * Phenomenology (Peirce), a branch of philosophy according to Charles Sanders Peirce (1839â ...
of viewing and pictorial representation and the question of medium. He also seeks to understand the cognitive processes involved in the presentation and perception of images, and their differences from linguistic processes.


Publications

Monographs: *''Wie Bilder Sinn erzeugen - Die Macht des Zeigens'', Berlin 2007. *''Der Maler Max Weiler: Das Geistige in der Natur'', Vienna, New York 2001. *''Museum der klassischen Moderne: Zwanzig Meisterwerke der modernen Kunst'', Frankfurt 1997. *''Paul Cézanne: Montagne Sainte-Victoire'', Frankfurt 1988. *''Bildnis und Individuum. Über den Ursprung der Porträtmalerei in der italienischen Renaissance'', Munich 1985. *''Studien zur Perspektivität. Philosophie und Kunst in der frühen Neuzeit'', Heidelberger Forschungen Nr. 13, Diss. Heidelberg 1969. As editor: *''Ikonologie der Gegenwart'', Munich 2008. (with Horst Bredekamp) *''Movens Bild. Zwischen Evidenz und Affekt'', Munich 2008. *''Figur und Figuration: Studien zu Wahrnehmung und Wissen'', Munich 2007. *''Henri Matisse: Figur, Farbe, Raum'', Ostfildern 2005 *''Homo pictor'', Munich 2001. *''Konstruktionen, Sichtbarkeiten: Interventionen'', Wien 1999. *''Cézanne und die Moderne'', Ostfildern 1999. *''Gesammelte Schriften von Max Imdahl'', Frankfurt 1996. *''Beschreibungskunst - Kunstbeschreibung: Ekphrasis von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart'', Munich 1995. *''Was ist ein Bild?'' Munich 1995. *''Individuum: Probleme der Individualität in Kunst, Philosophie und Wissenschaft'', Stuttgart 1994. *''Modernität und Tradition: Festschrift für Max Imdahl zum 60. Geburtstag'', Munich 1985. *''Seminar: Die Hermeneutik und die Wissenschaften'', Frankfurt 1985. *''Schriften zur Kunst von Konrad Fiedler'', 2 vols., Munich 1971. Essays (selection): *"Representation, Presentation, Presence: Tracing the Homo Pictor", in: ''Iconic Power. Materiality and Meaning in Social Life'', ed. Jeffrey C. Alexander, Dominik Bartmanski, and Bernhard Giesen, New York 2012; pp. 15–23. *"Ce qui se montre. De la différence iconique", in ''Penser l'image'', ed. Emmanuel Alloa, Paris, Les Presses du réel, 2010, pp. 27–47. *"Das Bild und die hermeneutische Reflexion", in: ''Dimensionen des Hermeneutischen. Heidegger und Gadamer'', ed. Martin-Heidegger-Gesellschaft. Schriftenreihe, Band 7, Frankfurt am Main, 2005, pp. 23–35. *"Jenseits der Sprache? Anmerkungen zur Logik der Bilder", in: ''Iconic Turn. Die Neue Macht der Bilder'', ed. Christa Maar and Hubert Burda, Cologne 2004, pp. 28–43. *"Der stumme Logos. Elemente einer Bildwissenschaft", in: ''Jahrbuch des Wissenschaftskollegs zu Berlin'', Institute for Advanced Study, Berlin 2001/2002, pp. 188–208. *"Die Kraft der Bilder. Die Kunst von 'Geisteskranken' und der Bilddiskurs", in: ''Wahn, Welt, Bild, Die Sammlung Prinzhorn''. Beiträge zur Museumseröffnung (Heidelberger Jahrbücher XLVI), Heidelberg 2002, pp. 1–10. *"Paul Cézanne und die Moderne", in: ''Cézanne und die Moderne'', catalogue (Fondation Beyeler, Riehen/ Basel), Ostfildern-Ruit 1999, pp. 10–27. *"Bildbeschreibung. Über die Grenzen von Bild und Sprache", in: G. Boehm und H. Pfotenhauer (eds.), ''Beschreibungskunst - Kunstbeschreibung. Die Ekphrasis von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart'', Munich 1995, pp. 23–40. *"Die Wiederkehr der Bilder", in: ''Was ist ein Bild?'', ed. Gottfried Boehm, Munich 1994, pp. 11–38. *"Die Bilderfrage", in: ''Was ist ein Bild?'', ed. Gottfried Boehm, Munich 1994, pp. 325–343. *"Mnemosyne. Zur Kategorie des erinnernden Sehens", in: G. Boehm, K.H. Stierle and G. Winter (eds.), ''Modernität und Tradition, Festschrift Max Imdahl'', Munich 1985, pp. 37–57. *"Zu einer Hermeneutik des Bildes", in: H.-G. Gadamer and G. Boehm (eds.), ''Seminar: Die Hermeneutik und die Wissenschaften'', Frankfurt 1978, pp. 444–471.


References


External links

* * * http://www.eikones.ch
'Gottfried Boehm and the image'
review of 'Was ist ein Bild' and 'Wie Bilder Sinn Erzeugen' {{DEFAULTSORT:Boehm, Gottfried German art historians 1942 births Living people Members of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts German male non-fiction writers German expatriates in Austria