Los Montajes de la Temporalidad

the following essay analyzes the bonds between art history and modernization, from the displacement of the historiographic positivism of german historian erwin panofsky. the apparent contradiction between a visual aesthetic and any other technique was a backdrop for a dispute over the sense of time and its representation models. the historical discipline and the modernization logic needed to validate their figurative conceptions and rules of production by appealing to the everlasting sense of the past or the constant innovation of the present. in this context, the iconological studies seem to resist to the degradation of art caused by a nowadays with no meaning that forgets about cultural heritage and how to overcome an historicism that is able to recognize art works as symbolic processes.