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Theory of form : Gerhard Richter and art in the pragmatist age / Florian Klinger
| Material Type | Books |
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| Publisher | Chicago : University of Chicago Press |
| Year | 2021 |
| Size | 180 p. ; 23 cm |
| Vol | ISBN:9780226347011 ; XISBN:9780226347295 |
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| Language | English |
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| Other titles | original title:Theorie der Form |
| Contents | Response to a contemporary challenge Morphological question: form as reaction Poetological question: form as judgment ; Eschatological question: form as transformation Form as paradigm? |
| Notes | Translation of: Theorie der Form : Gerhard Richter und die Kunst des pragmatischen Zeitalters "Published 2022"-- Colophon Includes index Summary: "The text is at once a meditation on theories of form and an essay on the painter Gerhard Richter as a philosophical pragmatist. Richter serves as the inspiration for a broader argument about the nature of "art" itself and for what Klinger professes to be a fresh approach to contemporary art more generally. He (1) addresses the widely conceded exhaustion of the modernist-postmodernist paradigm that has been used to negotiate the "essence of art" for decades and (2) offers what he says is a solution to the resulting gap that leaves us unclear on how to make art and talk about it. He draws on Kuhn's definition that a paradigm consists of the pre-theoretical framework of any practice: While rules and principles, where they exist, grow out of the paradigm, the paradigm can guarantee the functioning of a practice in the absence of rules. He sees Richter as relevant because the painter has never accepted the modern, neo-avant-garde, or postmodern movements as paradigms for his production. Klinger maintains |
| Authors | *Klinger, Florian author |
| Uniform title | Theorie der Form |
| Subjects | LCSH:Richter, Gerhard, 1932- -- Criticism and interpretation
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| Classification | LCC:ND588.R48 DC23:759.3 |
| ID | BB00000648 |
| ISBN | 9780226347011 |
| NCID | BC08775739 |