Objects in Air

Artworks and Their Outside around 1900

Inbunden, Engelska, 2021

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Beskrivning

Margareta Ingrid Christian unpacks the ways in which, around 1900, art scholars, critics, and choreographers wrote about the artwork as an actual object in real time and space, surrounded and fluently connected to the viewer through the very air we breathe. Theorists such as Aby Warburg, Alois Riegl, Rainer Maria Rilke, and the choreographer Rudolf Laban drew on the science of their time to examine air as the material space surrounding an artwork, establishing its “milieu,” “atmosphere,” or “environment.” Christian explores how the artwork’s external space was seen to work as an aesthetic category in its own right, beginning with Rainer Maria Rilke’s observation that Rodin’s sculpture “exhales an atmosphere” and that Cezanne’s colors create “a calm, silken air” that pervades the empty rooms where the paintings are exhibited.Writers created an early theory of unbounded form that described what Christian calls an artwork’s ecstasis or its ability to stray outside its limits and engender its own space. Objects viewed in this perspective complicate the now-fashionable discourse of empathy aesthetics, the attention to self-projecting subjects, and the idea of the modernist self-contained artwork. For example, Christian invites us to historicize the immersive spatial installations and “environments” that have arisen since the 1960s and to consider their origins in turn-of-the-twentieth-century aesthetics. Throughout this beautifully written work, Christian offers ways for us to rethink entrenched narratives of aesthetics and modernism and to revisit alternatives.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2021-06-07
Mått:152 x 229 x 25 mm
Vikt:680 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:304
Förlag:The University of Chicago Press
ISBN:9780226764771

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Konsthistoria inom Kultur
Konst: teman och motiv inom Kultur

Mer om författaren

Margareta Ingrid Christian is assistant professor of Germanic Studies at the University of Chicago. She has published articles in a range of contributed volumes and journals, among them PMLA, German Studies Review, and History of Photography.

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"In Objects in Air, Christian offers a compelling and innovative investigation of the history and theory of the physical and represented space that fills, permeates, or surrounds two- and three-dimensional works of art."

Innehållsförteckning

Introduction. Artworks and Their Modalities of Egress: The Air within and without ArtworksPolitics of ExtravagationMesologies of FormMedium and Milieu, or the Material Spaces of AirWorld Loss, Sitelessness, and the Artwork’s EnvironmentsAurai and Aura (Form and Space)Empathetic Artworks, Extensive Subjects1. Aer, Aurae, Venti: Warburg’s Aerial Forms and Historical MilieusAnima FiorentinaInspirationStimmung/AtmosphereMilieu as Air AmbiantThe Accessories’ MilieuBotticelli’s MilieuThe Physiology of InfluenceDisciplinary Milieus2. Luftraum: Riegl’s Vitalist Mesology of FormHorror vacuiUmgebungIndehiscent FormsCubic Space (“Air-Filled Empty Space”)Air SpaceRespiraciónExternal UnityKunstwollen3. Saturated Forms: Rilke’s and Rodin’s Sculpture of EnvironmentReticence and RadianceAesthetico-Biological Endeavors“Archaic Torso of Apollo”Aesthetic MetabolismsAbsorbed MilieusGravid FormsForms Striving for IncompletionTemporal Ecstasis4. The “Kinesphere” and the Body’s Other Spatial Envelopes in Rudolf Laban’s Theory of DanceChoreuticsSpatiomaterial RadiancePsychophysiologically Saturated SpaceAnima, Air, Atmosphere: Laban and KandinskyLuftkur, Plein AirDance’s Biological and Architectural LifeworldsCoda. Space as FormAcknowledgmentsNotesBibliographyIndex

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