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Record Nr.

UNINA9910810510203321

Autore

Herder Johann Gottfried

Titolo

Sculpture : Some Observations on Shape and Form from Pygmalion's Creative Dream / / Johann Gottfried Herder

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chicago : , : University of Chicago Press, , [2011]

©2002

ISBN

1-283-15076-X

9786613150769

0-226-32800-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (152 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

GaigerJason

Disciplina

701

Soggetti

Aesthetics

Art

Art -- Philosophy

Philosophy

Sculpture

Sculpture -- Philosophy

Art - Philosophy

Sculpture - Philosophy

Visual Arts

Art, Architecture & Applied Arts

Visual Arts - General

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ILLUSTRATIONS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- NOTE ON THE TRANSLATION -- PART ONE -- PART TWO -- PART THREE -- PART FOUR -- EDITOR'S NOTE -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX

Sommario/riassunto

"The eye that gathers impressions is no longer the eye that sees a depiction on a surface; it becomes a hand, the ray of light becomes a finger, and the imagination becomes a form of immediate touching."-Johann Gottfried Herder Long recognized as one of the most important eighteenth-century works on aesthetics and the visual arts, Johann



Gottfried Herder's Plastik (Sculpture, 1778) has never before appeared in a complete English translation. In this landmark essay, Herder combines rationalist and empiricist thought with a wide range of sources-from the classics to Norse legend, Shakespeare to the Bible-to illuminate the ways we experience sculpture. Standing on the fault line between classicism and romanticism, Herder draws most of his examples from classical sculpture, while nevertheless insisting on the historicity of art and of the senses themselves. Through a detailed analysis of the differences between painting and sculpture, he develops a powerful critique of the dominance of vision both in the appreciation of art and in our everyday apprehension of the world around us. One of the key articulations of the aesthetics of Sturm und Drang, Sculpture is also important as an anticipation of subsequent developments in art theory. Jason Gaiger's translation of Sculpture includes an extensive introduction to Herder's thought, explanatory notes, and illustrations of all the sculptures discussed in the text.