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The Visibility of the Image - History and Perspectives of Formal Aesthetics (Paperback)
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The Visibility of the Image - History and Perspectives of Formal Aesthetics (Paperback)
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Now available in English for the first time, The Visibility of the
Image explores the development of an influential aesthetic
tradition through the work of six figures. Analysing their
contribution to the progress of formal aesthetics, from its origins
in Germany in the 1880s to semiotic interpretations in America a
century later, the six chapters cover: Robert Zimmermann
(1824-1898), the first to separate aesthetics and metaphysics and
approach aesthetics along the lines of formal logic, providing a
purely syntactic way of using signs, regardless of objective
content; Alois Riegl (1858-1905), who went on to further develop
aesthetics on the model of formal logic, creating a theory of style
in response to Zimmermann's call for an aesthetics oriented toward
formal logic; Heinrich Woelfflin (1864-1945), who represents a step
toward an understanding of consciousness by using pictures as
cognitive tools; Konrad Fiedler (1841-1895), the Saxon philosopher
who considered the possibility that some kinds of images are made
and viewed not for what they show, but for their visibility's sake
alone; Maurice Merleau-Ponty (1908-1961), responsible for taking up
the connections between the problems of reducing the range of
potential meanings and contexts of a given image down to just the
picture surface; Charles William Morris (1901-1979), who set out to
establish whether a picture with no objective reference, such as an
abstract painting, still counts as a sign, and if so, in what
sense. Bringing these thinkers together and interlinking their
ideas, Lambert Wiesing presents an engaging history of formal
aesthetics, while reconstructing the philosophical foundations for
the appearance of new image forms in the 20th century, including
the video-clip, abstract collage, digital simulation and virtual
reality. Using this original approach, The Visibility of the Image
introduces the rise of modern image theory and provides a valuable
account of our engagement with pictures in the 21st century.
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