Read more
List of contents
Introduction
1. "Projective" and "Ampliative" Imagining
Jason Gaiger
2. Sculpture, Embodiment, and History:
Reassessing Hegel and Winckelmann
Kristin Gjesdal
3. The Temporality of the Figure in Sculpture
Alex Potts
4. Cubic Form: Carl Einstein's Philosophically Realist Theory of Sculpture
Andrei Pop
5. African Sculpture: Interrelating the Verbal and Visual in Yorùbá Aesthetics
Barry Hallen
6. The Persistence of the Body in Sculpture after Abstraction
Ingvild Torsen
7. Sculpture on the Verge of Architecture: Reflections on Gordon Matta-Clark
Fred Rush
8. Material, Medium, and Sculptural Imagining
Jonathan Gilmore
9. Materials and Meaning in Contemporary Sculpture
Sherri Irvin
10. The Sculpted Image?
Robert Hopkins
About the author
Kristin Gjesdal is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Temple University, USA and Professor II of Philosophy at the University of Oslo, Norway. She is the author of
Herder's Hermeneutics: History, Poetry, Enlightenment (2017),
Gadamer and The Legacy of German Idealism (2009), and a number of articles in the areas of aesthetics, hermeneutics, and nineteenth-century philosophy.
Fred Rush is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame. He is the author of
Irony and Idealism (2016) and
On Architecture (Routledge, 2009). He is the editor of
The Cambridge Companion to Critical Theory (2004) and for several years also edited the
Internationales Jahrbuch des deutschen Idealismus.
Ingvild Torsen is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Oslo, Norway. Her work has been published in
The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism and
The British Journal of Aesthetics.
Summary
This volume comprises ten essays at the cutting edge of thinking about sculpture in philosophical terms, representing approaches to sculpture from the perspectives of both Anglo-American and European philosophy. Some of the essays are historically situated, while others are more straightforwardly conceptual.
