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Figuring Mood: The Role of Stimmung in the Formal Approach of Heinrich Wölfflin and Alois Riegl
Author(s) -
Saunders Andrew
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
architectural design
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.128
H-Index - 22
eISSN - 1554-2769
pISSN - 0003-8504
DOI - 10.1002/ad.2107
Subject(s) - figuring , german , harmony (color) , relation (database) , baroque , architecture , formalism (music) , mood , sociology , art history , art , philosophy , psychology , history , visual arts , archaeology , computer science , social psychology , musical , physics , database , optics
Roughly translatable as ‘mood’ or ‘atmosphere’, Stimmung plays a key part in the late‐19th‐century writings of German art historians Wölfflin and Riegl. Andrew Saunders , Associate Professor of Architecture at the University of Pennsylvania School of Design, studies the origins of the concept, which links rational perceptions of harmony with notions of emotional response. He examines the two writers' contrasting views of Stimmung in relation to the Baroque, and highlights its little acknowledged role in the inception of formalism.