The Forces of Form in German Modernism
Autor Malika Maskarinecen Limba Engleză Hardback – 15 sep 2018
The Forces of Form in German Modernism charts a modern history of form as emergent from force. Offering a provocative alternative to the imagery of crisis and estrangement that has preoccupied scholarship on modernism, Malika Maskarinec shows that German modernism conceives of human bodies and aesthetic objects as shaped by a contest of conflicting and reciprocally intensifying forces: the force of gravity and a self-determining will to form. Maskarinec thereby discloses, for the first time, German modernism's sustained preoccupation with classical mechanics and with how human bodies and artworks resist gravity.
Considering canonical artists such as Rodin and Klee, seminal authors such as Kafka and Döblin, and largely neglected thinkers in aesthetics and art history such as those associated with Empathy Aesthetics, Maskarinec unpacks the manifold anthropological and aesthetic concerns and historical lineage embedded in the idea of form as the precarious achievement of uprightness.
The Forces of Form in German Modernism makes a decisive contribution to our understanding of modernism and to contemporary discussions about form, empathy, materiality, and human embodiment.
Considering canonical artists such as Rodin and Klee, seminal authors such as Kafka and Döblin, and largely neglected thinkers in aesthetics and art history such as those associated with Empathy Aesthetics, Maskarinec unpacks the manifold anthropological and aesthetic concerns and historical lineage embedded in the idea of form as the precarious achievement of uprightness.
The Forces of Form in German Modernism makes a decisive contribution to our understanding of modernism and to contemporary discussions about form, empathy, materiality, and human embodiment.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780810137707
ISBN-10: 0810137704
Pagini: 240
Ilustrații: 14 b-w images
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.48 kg
Editura: Northwestern University Press
Colecția Northwestern University Press
ISBN-10: 0810137704
Pagini: 240
Ilustrații: 14 b-w images
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.48 kg
Editura: Northwestern University Press
Colecția Northwestern University Press
Notă biografică
MALIKA MASKARINEC is the managing director of eikones: Center for the Theory and History of the Image at the University of Basel. She is the coeditor of Formbildung und Formbegriff: Das Formdenken der Moderne.
Cuprins
List of Illustrations
Introduction
Part I An Aesthetics of Heaviness
Chapter 1 Prelude: Schopenhauer on Weight and the Will
Chapter 2 Reading Rodin’s Vertiginous Bodies
Part II Empathy and Abstraction
Chapter 3 Lines of Force: Empathy Aesthetics, 1870–1910
Chapter 4 Klee’s Composition in Suspension
Part III Poetic Gravity
Chapter 5 Kafka’s Kinetics
Chapter 6 Franz Biberkopf and the Unbearable Heaviness of Being
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Introduction
Part I An Aesthetics of Heaviness
Chapter 1 Prelude: Schopenhauer on Weight and the Will
Chapter 2 Reading Rodin’s Vertiginous Bodies
Part II Empathy and Abstraction
Chapter 3 Lines of Force: Empathy Aesthetics, 1870–1910
Chapter 4 Klee’s Composition in Suspension
Part III Poetic Gravity
Chapter 5 Kafka’s Kinetics
Chapter 6 Franz Biberkopf and the Unbearable Heaviness of Being
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Recenzii
"This book makes a significant contribution to the study of German modernism, and it does so by straddling the fields of art history and literary and cultural studies. Its balance of theoretical acumen and historical erudition is impressive, as is its original, interdisciplinary combination of themes and material." —Eric Downing, author of The Chain of Things: Divinatory Magic and the Practice of Reading in German Literature and Thought, 1850-1940
". . . makes a convincing case for how 'kinesthetic categories' derived from the prediscursive experience of bodies subject to mechanical forces conditioned and regulated artistic production in the early twentieth century. By recovering this psycho-physiological discourse, Maskarinec is able to articulate a modernist concept of form that is distinct from both the classical ideal thereof and the postmodern exaltation of formlessness and fragmentation." —Ross Gillum Shileds, Zeitschrift für deutsche Philologie
". . . stimulating as well as demanding . . ." —Dominik Brabant, Zeitschrift für Kunstgeschichte
“Starting from the proto-modernist theories on heaviness, moving through some of the most emblematic counterexamples to the dehumanizing liquefaction-processes implied in the modern monetary system and in civilizational collapses, and finally reaching some of the greatest poetical milestones, The Forces of Form in German Modernism is relevant to the current debates as it gives voice to the enduring matter of such forms of understanding and of expression—forms which, rather than having an abstract and superficial scope, are endowed with a common and much more deeper purpose.” —Mirta Devidi, Arcadia
Descriere
The Forces of Form in German Modernism discloses a decisive yet neglected aspect of modernism: its profound concern with the experience of the heavy body and its defense of form as emergent from the forces of gravity and the will.