The visibility of the image history and perspectives of formal aesthetics - Wiesing, Lambert; Roth, Nancy Ann (London Bloomsbury Academic, 2018)
Introduction 1. The Beginnings of Formal Aesthetics: Robert Zimmermann (1824-1898) 1.1 Formal Logic as a Model for Formal Aesthetics 1.2 The Programme: a Structural Theory of the Picture Surface 1.3 Perspectives and Problems in Herbartianism 2. Formal Aesthetics and Relational Logic: Alois Riegl (1858-1905) 2.1 Transitions on the Pictorial Surface 2.2 Kunstwollen (The Will to Art): Making Unlike Things the Same 2.3 Intensional and Extensional Relational Logic 3. The Logic of Ways of Seeing: Heinrich Woelfflin (1864-1945) 3.1 The Relational Logic of an Image 3.2 Formal and Transcendental Aesthetics 3.3 The Conditionality of Perception 4. From the Way of Seeing to Visibility: Konrad Fiedler (1841-1895) 4.1 The Paradigms of Formal Aesthetics 4.2 Images Produced Technically: "For Their Visibility's Sake Alone" 4.3 The Disappearance of Artistic Claims to Truth 4.5 Phenomenological Reduction and Pictorial Abstraction: Maurice Merleau-Ponty (1908-1961) 5.1 Formal Aesthetics and Reduction 5.2 Visibility as Quiddity 5.3The Abstract Image 6. From the Formula to Formative Discourse: Charles William Morris (1901-1979) 6.1Images about Images 6.2 Images as Formulae 6.3 The Formative Discourse of Fast Image Sequences. Bibliography. Inde
Originally published in German as Die Sichtbarkeit des Bildes. Geschichteund Perspektiven der formalen Ästhetik, Lambert Wiesing © Campus Verlag GmbH
Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-257) and index
Keywords: Aesthetics, Modern -- 19th century; Aesthetics, Modern -- 20th century; Art -- Philosophy -- History -- 19th century; Art -- Philosophy -- History -- 20th century