Sculpture(2nd Edition) Some Observations on Shape and Form from Pygmalion's Creative Dream by Johann Gottfried Herder, JasonGaiger Paperback, 141 Pages, Published 2002 by University Of Chicago Press ISBN-13: 978-0-226-32755-6, ISBN: 0-226-32755-8
""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 Herder Long 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 transl ..."
Aesthetics and Painting (Bloomsbury Aesthetics) by JasonGaiger Hardcover, 192 Pages, Published 2008 by Bloomsbury Academic ISBN-13: 978-0-8264-8520-5, ISBN: 0-8264-8520-0
"Aesthetics and Painting introduces and opens up current debates and ideas in the aesthetics of painting. At the book's center is an investigation of the complex relationship between what a painting depicts and the means by which it is depicted. The book looks at: how and why painting may be distinguished from other art forms; the relationship between the painted surface and the depicted subject; the "rules of representation" specific to ..."
Aesthetics and Painting(1st Edition) (Bloomsbury Aesthetics) by JasonGaiger Paperback, 192 Pages, Published 2008 by Bloomsbury Academic ISBN-13: 978-0-8264-8521-2, ISBN: 0-8264-8521-9
"This book offers an engaging and sophisticated look at the debates and ideas involved in the aesthetics of painting - part of a major new series from Continuum's philosophy list."Aesthetics and Painting" introduces and opens up current debates and ideas in the aesthetics of painting. At the book's centre is an investigation of the complex relationship between what a painting depicts and the means by which it is depicted. The book looks ..."
"Art in Theory (1648–1815) provides a wide–ranging and comprehensive collection of documents on the theory of art from the founding of the French Academy until the end of the Napoleonic Wars. Like its highly successful companion volumes, Art in Theory (1815–1900) and Art in Theory (1900–1990), its′ primary aim is to provide students and teachers with the documentary material for informed and up–to–date study. Its′ 240 texts, clear princi ..."
"Art in Theory 1815-1900 provides the most wide-ranging and comprehensive collection of documents ever assembled on nineteenth-century theories of art. Like its highly successful companion volume, Art in Theory 1900-1990, also edited by Charles Harrison and Paul Wood, its primary aim is to provide students and teachers with the documentary material for informed and up-to-date study. Its 260 texts, clear organization and considerable edit ..."
"Art in Theory (1648–1815) provides a wide–ranging and comprehensive collection of documents on the theory of art from the founding of the French Academy until the end of the Napoleonic Wars. Like its highly successful companion volumes, Art in Theory (1815–1900) and Art in Theory (1900–1990), its′ primary aim is to provide students and teachers with the documentary material for informed and up–to–date study. Its′ 240 texts, clear princi ..."
"A sophisticated treatment of major ideas in art and philosophy, this text presents a clear and coherent account of the nature of painting."
Bloomsbury Aesthetics Ser. Aesthetics and Painting by JasonGaiger 192 Pages, Published 2008 by Bloomsbury Publishing ISBN-13: 978-1-4411-5458-3, ISBN: 1-4411-5458-2
"Consider, for example, Richter's painting Christa and Wolfi of 1964 (Plate 16),
which is based onone ofhis wife's family photographs. ... him to sustain the
modernist concern with the specific technical and physical resources of painting
without abandoning recognizable subject matter.96 As Ralph Rugoff has
observed, one of the consequences of painting from photographs is thatthe artist
has to pay equal attention to every part of th ..."
"This popular anthology of twentieth–century art theoretical texts has now been expanded to take account of new research, and to include significant contributions to art theory from the 1990s. New edition of this popular anthology of twentieth–century art–theoretical texts. Now updated to include the results of new research, together with significant contributions from the 1990s. Includes writings by critics, philosophers, politi ..."
Frameworks for Modern Art(Updated) (Art of the Twentieth Century) by Professor JasonGaiger Hardcover, 272 Pages, Published 2004 by Yale University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-300-10140-9, ISBN: 0-300-10140-6
Frameworks for Modern Art(4th Edition) (Art of the Twentieth Century) by Professor JasonGaiger Paperback, 272 Pages, Published 2004 by Yale University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-300-10228-4, ISBN: 0-300-10228-3
"Beauty has emerged as one of the most hotly contested subjects in current discussions on art and culture. After more than half a century of suspicion and interrogation, beauty's resurgence in visual practice and discourse since the late 1980s has engaged some of the most influential artists and writers on art. From the avant-garde to the conceptual era, anti-aesthetic strat ..."