Sculpture by Johann Gottfried Herder

Sculpture by Johann Gottfried Herder

Long recognized as one of the most important 18th-century works on the aesthetics of 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 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. Jason Gaigers translation of "Sculpture" includes an extensive introduction to Herder's thought and illustrations of all the sculptures discussed in the text.

"Herder on sculpture: "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

Jason Gaiger is lecturer in art history at the Open University. He is coeditor of Art in Theory 1815-1900 and Art in Theory 1648-1815.

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ISBN 13	9780226327556
ISBN 10	0226327558
Title	Sculpture
Author	Johann Gottfried Herder
Series	Emersion: Emergent Village Resources For Communities Of Faith
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	The University of Chicago Press
Year published	2002-10-15
Number of pages	141
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