biography
pronunciation:
[panofskee]
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| lived:
| (1892–1968)
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| biography:
| Art historian, born in Hanover, NC Germany. He studied at Berlin, Munich, and Freiburg universities, taught at the University of Hamburg (1921–32), and worked as a librarian. He fled from Nazi Germany to New York City in 1934, and from 1935 taught at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton. Although best known for developing the iconological approach to art - a method of interpreting the meaning of works of art by an analysis of the symbolism, history, and other non-aesthetic aspects of the subject matter - he had an interest in a wide variety of subjects from the history of movies and the detective story to the works of Mozart. His major works include Preface to Studies in Iconology (1939) and Meaning in the Visual Arts (1955). |
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