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Sculpture [electronic resource] : Some Observations on Shape and Form from Pygmalion's Creative Dream
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Herder, Johann Gottfried, 1744-1803.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Aesthetics.
- Art.
- Art--Philosophy.
- Philosophy.
- Sculpture.
- Sculpture--Philosophy.
- Local Subjects:
- Aesthetics.
- Art.
- Art--Philosophy.
- Philosophy.
- Sculpture.
- Sculpture--Philosophy.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (152 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago, IL : University of Chicago Press, 2011.
- Summary:
- ""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 HerderLong 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 le
- Contents:
- Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Note on the Translation; Sculpture; Editor's Notes; Bibliography; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- OCLC:
- 721195555
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