The visibility of the image history and perspectives of formal aesthetics

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Wiesing, Lambert (Author)
Other Authors:	Roth, Nancy Ann (Translator)
Resource Type:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	London Bloomsbury Academic 2018.
Subjects:	Aesthetics, Modern > 19th century. Aesthetics, Modern > 20th century. Art > Philosophy > History > 19th century. Art > Philosophy > History > 20th century.

Table of Contents:

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