Empathy, Form, and Space: Problems in German Aesthetics, 1873-1893Written in the last three decades of the nineteenth century - at a time when the proliferation of knowledge and dramatic social and economic change had combined to force the issue of art's exhaustion of its traditional historical themes - these seminal writings helped to redesign the theoretical foundation of modern artistic practice. The earlier metaphysical problem of how we structure and understand form and space in the natural world in essence gave way to the aesthetic problem of how we might appreciate and actually exploit pure form and pure space artistically, in painting, sculpture, music, and architecture. |
Contents
Robert Vischer | 29 |
A CONTRIBUTION TO AESTHETICS | 89 |
Feeling and Emotion | 102 |
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Empathy, Form, and Space: Problems in German Aesthetics, 1873-1893 Robert Vischer No preview available - 1994 |
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