The visibility of the image : history and perspectives of formal aesthetics / Lambert Wiesing ; translated by Nancy Ann Roth.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wiesing, Lambert, author.

Contributor:

Roth, Nancy Ann, translator.

Standardized Title:

Sichtbarkeit des Bildes. English

Language:

English

German

Subjects (All):

Aesthetics, Modern--19th century.

Aesthetics, Modern.

Aesthetics, Modern--20th century.

Art--Philosophy--History--19th century.

Art.

Art--Philosophy--History--20th century.

Art--Philosophy.

History.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xviii, 257 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

London ; New York, NY : Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2016.

Summary:

Lambert Wiesing, a prominent figure in image theory, is Professor of Philosophy at Jena University, Germany. He was President of the German Society for Aesthetics between 2005 and 2008. He was a Leverhulme Trust Visiting Professor at the University of Oxford, UK in 2013. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 The Beginnings of Formal Aesthetics: Robert Zimmermann (1824-1898) 15

1.1 Formal logic as a model for formal aesthetics 15

1.2 The programme: A structural theory of the picture surface 22

1.3 Perspectives and problems in Herbartianism 31

2 Formal Aesthetics and Relational Logic: Alois Riegl (1858-1905) 39

2.1 Transitions on the pictorial surface 39

2.2 Kunstwollen (the will to art): Making unlike things the same 47

2.3 Intensional and extensional relational logic 57

3 The Logic of Ways of Seeing: Heinrich Wölfflin (1864-1945) 69

3.1 The relational logic of an image 69

3.2 Formal and transcendental aesthetics 86

3.3 The conditionality of perception 93

4 From the Way of Seeing to Visibility: Konrad Fiedler (1841-1895) 107

4.1 The paradigms of formal aesthetics 107

4.2 Images produced technically: 'For their visibility's sake alone' 125

4.3 The disappearance of artistic claims to truth 145

5 Phenomenological Reduction and Pictorial Abstraction: Maurice Merleau-Ponty (1908-1961) 157

5.1 Formal aesthetics and reduction 157

5.2 Visibility as quiddity 165

5.3 The abstract image 171

6 From the Formula to Formative Discourse: Charles William Morris (1901-1979) 179

6.1 Images about images 179

6.2 Images as formulae 184

6.3 The formative discourse of fast image sequences 191.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Wiesing, Lambert, author. Visibility of the image.

ISBN:

9781474232647

1474232647

9781474233316

1474233317

OCLC:

932577044