Practice question · True or false
Gombrich rejected iconology and proposed abandoning the third level.
Hints
- Consider his relationship to the Warburg tradition.
- He wrote Warburg's intellectual biography and wanted the level disciplined.
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False
Why
False. He wrote Warburg's intellectual biography and worked inside the tradition. His argument is that the third level demands more discipline than its practitioners were exercising — genre, documents, scepticism about esoteric claims — which is a demand for rigour, not a rejection.
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