%0 Journal Article
%T W lfflin, Architecture and the Problem of Stilwandlung
%A Alina Payne
%J Journal of Art Historiography
%D 2012
%I 
%X This article argues that more so than style, it was the mechanism that caused style change that galvanized W lfflin¡¯s inquiry starting with his doctoral dissertation (1886) to the Principles of Art History (1915). The late 19th century broadly-based discussion of style in architecture (that gathered Semper, G ller, Riegl and many others) provided him with the ¡°laboratory¡± where he first developed the concepts of subject/object relationship and reception/perception that informed his mature work. This initial and very productive dialogue with architecture, also meant that W lfflin had an effect upon architecture culture both in his own time and subsequently, through the work of his student Sigfried Giedion.
%K W lfflin
%K Giedion
%K style
%K empathy theory
%K objects
%K Semper
%K Riegl
%U http://arthistoriography.files.wordpress.com/2012/12/payne.pdf