‘Post-culturalist art history’ doesn’t take for granted the ontological fact of culture as the context and content in dealing with the concrete material things and aesthetic practices which make up the putative ‘objects’ of art history. And therefore it doesn’t take for granted the epistemological primacy of cultural history in interpretation and explanation of its objects. It means offering a nontautological analysis of the social emergence and partial consolidation of visual culture, including traditions of pictorial art. What this analysis claims and does in its terms and details is less important than the very fact of a strenuous effort to provide it. Precisely because post-culturalist thinking doesn’t take for granted the fact of culture and the primacy of cultural history, potentially it can situate itself in productive and practical ways in relation to non-cultural inquiries in art history and in studies of art. The present essays began as presentations given at a symposium organized by Jakub Stejskal at the Dahlem Humanities Center, Freie Universitat Berlin, in April 2016.

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柏林后文化主义艺术史研讨会

“后文化主义者的艺术史”并没有理所当然地认为文化的本体论事实是处理构成艺术史的“对象”的具体物质事物和美学实践的上下文和内容。因此，在解释和解释其对象时，并没有把文化史的认识论放在首位。这意味着要对包括图像艺术在内的视觉文化的社会兴起和部分巩固提供一种非重言式的分析。该分析所声称的内容以及在其术语和细节方面所做的工作并不比为提供它而付出的艰苦努力重要。正是因为后文化主义者的思维并非理所当然地认为文化事实和文化历史至高无上，相对于艺术史和艺术研究中的非文化探究，它有可能以富有成效和实际的方式定位。本论文的开始是在2016年4月由雅各布·史蒂斯卡（Jakub Stejskal）在柏林弗赖大学（University of Freie Universitat）达勒姆人文中心（Dahlem Humanities Center）组织的一次研讨会上进行的演讲。