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Theory of Form: Gerhard Richter and Art in the Pragmatist Age

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By (author): Florian Klinger

A pragmatist conception of artistic form, through a study of the painter Gerhard Richter.
 
In this study of the practice of contemporary painter Gerhard Richter, Florian Klinger proposes a fundamental change in the way we think about art today. In reaction to the exhaustion of the modernist-postmodernist paradigms negotiation of the essence of art, he takes Richter to pursue a pragmatist model that understands artistic form as action. Here form is no longer conceived according to what it saysas a vehicle of expression, representation, or realization of something other than itselfbut strictly according to what it does.  
 
Through its doing, Klinger argues, artistic form is not only more real but also more shared than non-artistic reality, and thus enables interaction under conditions where it would otherwise not be possible. It is a human practice aimed at testing and transforming the limits of shared reality, urgently needed in situations where such reality breaks down or turns precarious. Drawing on pragmatist thought, philosophical aesthetics, and art history, Klingers account of Richters practice offers a highly distinctive conceptual alternative for contemporary art in general.     
  
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Product Details
  • Weight: 254g
  • Dimensions: 140 x 216mm
  • Publication Date: 24 Jun 2022
  • Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
  • Publication City/Country: United States
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9780226347011

About Florian Klinger

Florian Klinger is associate professor of Germanic studies at the University of Chicago.  

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