Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xv, 252 Seiten)
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ISBN:
9781350988125
Series Statement:
International Library of Modern and Contemporary Art 23
Content:
"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."--Back cover
Content:
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.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781784533458
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Space and time in artistic practice and aesthetics London : I.B. Tauris, 2017 ISBN 9781784533458
Language:
English
Subjects:
German Studies
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Philosophy
Keywords:
Lessing, Gotthold Ephraim 1729-1781
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Ästhetik
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Rezeption
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Kunst
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Electronic books
DOI:
10.5040/9781350988125
Author information:
Lessing, Gotthold Ephraim 1729-1781
