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The present paper deals with the impact of the Prague linguistic circle on art history. Following V. N.Volsinov'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. Mukarovsky's and R. Jakobson's ideas on art historical writing from E. Gombrich to the semiotics of the history of art. Drawing upon Wilhelm von Humboldt, V. N.Volosinov in his "Marxism and Philosophy of Language" (1929) distinguishes between two conceptions of language: On the one hand there is "individualistic subjectivism" conceiving of language as "energeia", i.e. as the result of individual speech acts characterized by creativeness and uniqueness. On the other hand, there is "abstract objectivism" that regards language as an impersonal normative system or "ergon" (Bachtin, Volosinov 1986, 230-252). The first idea preferred by Wilhelm von Humboldt was articulated later in an extreme way by Benedetto Croce in his paper "Tesi d'este

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Author

Jan Bakos

Publisher

Walter de Gruyter GmbH

Published

2005

Field

Social Sciences