Objects in air : artworks and their outside around 1900 / Margareta Ingrid Christian.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Christian, Margareta Ingrid, author.

Series:

Chicago scholarship online.

Chicago scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Air in art.

Space and time in art.

Art criticism--History--20th century.

Arts, Modern--20th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (304 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2021.

Summary:

Margareta Ingrid Christian unpacks the ways in which, around 1900, art scholars, critics, and choreographers wrote about the artwork as an actual object in real time and space, surrounded and fluently connected to the viewer through the very air we breathe. Theorists such as Aby Warburg, Alois Riegl, Rainer Maria Rilke, and the choreographer Rudolf Laban drew on the science of their time to examine air as the material space surrounding an artwork, establishing its 'milieu,' 'atmosphere,' or 'environment.' Christian explores how the artwork's external space was seen to work as an aesthetic category in its own right, beginning with Rainer Maria Rilke's observation that Rodin's sculpture 'exhales an atmosphere' and that Cezanne's colours create 'a calm, silken air' that pervades the empty rooms where the paintings are exhibited.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Introduction Artworks and Their Modalities of Egress

Chapter 1 Aer, Aurae, Venti: Warburg’s Aerial Forms and Historical Milieus

Chapter 2 Luftraum: Riegl’s Vitalist Mesology of Form

Chapter 3 Saturated Forms: Rilke’s and Rodin’s

Chapter 4 The “Kinesphere” and the Body’s Other Spatial Envelopes in Rudolf Laban’s Theory of Dance

Coda Space as Form

Acknowledgments

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Also issued in print: 2021.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on December 8, 2021).

Other Format:

Print version:

ISBN:

9780226764801

022676480X

OCLC:

1252417928