Konrad Chmielecki
Arts & Cultural Studies Review, Issue 2 (8), 2010, pp. 98 - 108
The article presents the evolution from Kunstwissenschaft to Kulturwissenschaft was included in the project of Aby Warburg in The Anthropology of Image by Hans Belting and Visual Culture Studies. The author tries to find new research areas of visual culture. In Belting’s sensibly the project of Warburg is the basis for much of his interest in the images than in the case of other art historians.
The context of evolution from Kunstwissenschaft to Kulturwissenschaft can to find in
the social formulation of visual culture and the social theory of visuality, which are symptoms the paradigm of phono-logo-centrism. However, this paradigm to point out the direction of human recognition: from visual forms and talk and theorise and achieve understanding of those forms though mental constructs.
According to described tendencies, the project of Warburg is appeared in the development of visual culture studies, which emerge from the postmodern reflection on the history of art (visual studies). The evolution from Kunstwissenschaft to Kulturwissenschaft returns in terms of the interdisciplinary study of visual culture (visual culture studies).