Space and time in artistic practice and aesthetics : the legacy of Gotthold Ephraim Lessing / edited by Sarah J. Lippert.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Lippert, Sarah J., 1975- editor.

Bloomsbury (Firm), publisher.

Series:

International library of modern and contemporary art ; 23.

International Library of Modern and Contemporary Art ; 23

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Lessing, Gotthold Ephraim, 1729-1781--Criticism and interpretation.

Lessing, Gotthold Ephraim.

Space and time in art.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (270 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

First edition.

Distribution:

London, England : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2019.

Place of Publication:

London, England : I.B. Tauris & Co. Ltd, 2017.

Summary:

"When the Enlightenment thinker Gotthold Ephraim Lessing wrote his treatise Laocoön: An Essay on the Limits of Painting and Poetry in 1766, he outlined the strengths and weaknesses of each art. Painting was assigned to the realm of space; poetry to the realm of time. 'Space and Time in Artistic Practice and Aesthetics' explores how artists since the eighteenth century up to the present day have grappled with the consequences of Lessing's theory and those that it spawned. As the book reveals, many artists have been - and continue to be - influenced by Lessing-like theories, which have percolated into the art education and art criticism. Artists from Jean Raoux to Willem de Kooning and Frances Bacon, and art critics such as Clement Greenberg, have felt the weight of Lessing's theories in their modes of creation, whether consciously or not. Should we sound the death knell for the theories of Lessing and his kind? Or will conceptions of temporality, spatiality and artistic competition continue to unfold? This book - the first to consider how Lessing's writings connect to visual art's production - brings these questions to the fore."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction : the tenents of Lessing and his legacy / Sarah J. Lippert

Drawing the line : gender, artistic theory and absolutism in Raoux's paintings and Lessing's words / Gabriela Jasin

Bridging space and time : Winckelmann's theory and its aftermath (1754-78) / Franco Cirulli

Correcting Lessing's error : E.H. Toelken's Addendum to Laokoon, 1822 / Eric Garberson

The temporality of imitation in the work of Moreau and Gérôme / Sarah J. Lippert

Painterly myopia and the main ingredient : flesh: a look at the work of Soutine, Bacon, Dubuffet and de Kooning / Chad Airhart

Almost : Greenberg and Lessing / Thomas Morgan Evans

In the body's space, the body's time : feeling your way through Richard Serra's The Matter of Time / Rob Marks

The art of becoming : the symbiosis of time, space and film in Pull My Daisy / Timothy W. Hiles

Conclusion : Limit-imposing systems / Sarah J. Lippert.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-247) and index.

ISBN:

9781350988125

135098812X

9781786722560

1786722569

9781786732569

1786732564

OCLC:

1002418690