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open Vorm	forma zamknięta	nyitott forma	açik form	forma aberta	отворена форма	ανοικτή μορφή	forma închisǎ
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Glossary

Abendland/abendländisch (western): Literally occidental. Wölfflin means exclusively Western Europe when he uses the term.

Abwicklung: sequence or unfolding, a neutrally ordered sequence of events that does not indicate progress (as does Entwicklung, development)

Auffasssung: apprehension or perception, a way of seizing the world.

Dekorative: pure design, that is, that which does not have a mimetic referent.

Fernstil: Riegl used this term, and its related Fernblick, to indicate a work of art that requires a distant viewing point. Its opposite is Nahblick or proximate viewing.

Geist/geistig: of the spirit, not spiritual. Can include intellectual spirit in sense of spirit of rationalism of the Enlightenment

Germanisch: Germanic, a broader category than German, that often encompasses Dutch art and feeling for form.

Impressionism: Wölfflin refers variably to the historical movement of Impressionism and to transhistorical impressionisms.

lassik/klassisch: transhistorical values of equilibrium, clarity, etc. found at different moments but especially in the sixteenth century in Italy. Wölfflin insisted the Klassik was not synonymous with Renaissance art.

lebendig: lively, living, with vitality, a term used ubiquitously and with references to Lebensphilosophie.

Modern/moderne: can refer either to a more contemporary modern or to the early modern era (ca. 1400-1750)

nordisch: Northern. More geographic than qualitative (as germanisch can be)

Primitiven: artists of the Italian trecento and quattrocento, so called because they worked prior to “new” or “modern” era of art (marked by the Renaissance).

Primitiv: see p. for his explanation.

Regelmässigkeit: lawfulness or rule-bound.

Regie: stage direction or a large coordinated work.

Reiz: pleasure or stimulus, stimulation.

romanisch: Latinate, with reference usually to Spain and Italy

Sättung: Satiety. From Winckelmann, Goethe, Burckhardt. Has some erotic connotation.

Verunklärung: The making unclear or, the more purposeful and ethical obfuscation.

Vorstellung: either conceptualization in the mind (imagination) or representation, the form that conceptualization is given, visualization. Also, more commonplace meanings like the idea or conception.

Wahrnehmung: perception

Willkür: arbitrary, capricious, and these as characteristic of the exercise of power in tyrannies.

Zeitgeist: spirit of the times.