1st Edition
Philosophy of Sculpture Historical Problems, Contemporary Approaches
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
Biography
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.
