Space and time in artistic practice and aesthetics: the legacy of Gotthold Ephraim Lessing PDF
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i Sarah J. Lippert is Associate Professor of Art History in the Visual Arts Programme at the University of Michigan-F lint, as well as the Director of the Society for Paragone Studies. She holds a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) in Art History and Criticism, as well as a Master of Arts in Art History, from Western University, and received her Ph.D. in Art History from the Pennsylvania State University. She has been the recipient of a Samuel H. Kress Fellowship in the History of Art, as well as a fellowship from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. Her research expertise is as a scholar of eighteenth and nineteenth- century French and British art, specialising in aesthetic theory, painting and sculpture, and the history of artistic competition, known as the paragone. Recent publications include articles in the international journals Artibus et Historiae and Dix- Neuf, whilst her forthcoming book The Paragone in Nineteenth-C entury Art will be published in 2018. ii ‘Although Lessing’s Laocoön is his most celebrated text, cited in almost every discussion of time and space in the arts, it has not received such intensive, imaginative and challenging consideration by writers interested primarily in the visual arts until this thoughtfully assembled and fascinat- ing group of essays.’ James H. Rubin, Stony Brook, State University of New York iii Space and Time in Artistic Practice and Aesthetics The Legacy of Gotthold Ephraim Lessing EDITED BY SARAH J. LIPPERT iv Published in 2017 by I.B.Tauris & Co. Ltd London • New York www.ibtauris.com Copyright Editorial Selection © 2017 Sarah J. Lippert Copyright Individual Chapters © 2017 Chad Airhart, Franco Cirulli, Thomas Morgan Evans, Eric Garberson, Timothy W. Hiles, Gabriela Jasin, Sarah J. Lippert, Rob Marks The right of Sarah J. Lippert to be identified as the editor of this work has been asserted by the editor in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. All rights reserved. Except for brief quotations in a review, this book, or any part thereof, may not be reproduced, stored in or introduced into a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the publisher. Every attempt has been made to gain permission for the use of the images in this book. Any omissions will be rectified in future editions. References to websites were correct at the time of writing. International Library of Modern and Contemporary Art 23 ISBN: 978 1 78453 345 8 eISBN: 978 1 78672 256 0 ePDF: 978 1 78673 256 9 A full CIP record for this book is available from the British Library A full CIP record is available from the Library of Congress Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: available Typeset by Newgen Knowledge Works Pvt Ltd Printed and bound by CPI Group (UK) Ltd, Croydon, CR0 4YY v This book is dedicated to Dr Brian Curran for his inspiring mentorship as a dedicated doctoral advisor, his masterful work as an extraordinarily accom- plished art historian, and his generosity of spirit vi vii Contents Contributors ix Acknowledgements xii List of Figures xiii Introduction: The Tenets of Lessing and his Legacy 1 Sarah J. Lippert 1 Drawing the Line: Gender, Artistic Theory and Absolutism in Raoux’s Paintings and Lessing’s Words 8 Gabriela Jasin 2 Bridging Space and Time: Winckelmann’s Theory and its Aftermath (1754–78) 35 Franco Cirulli 3 Correcting Lessing’s Error: E.H. Toelken’s Addendum to Laokoon, 1822 74 Eric Garberson 4 The Temporality of Imitation in the Work of Moreau and Gérôme 97 Sarah J. Lippert 5 Painterly Myopia and the Main Ingredient: Flesh: A Look at the Work of Soutine, Bacon, Dubuffet and de Kooning 120 Chad Airhart 6 Almost: Greenberg and Lessing 150 Thomas Morgan Evans vii viii Contents 7 In the Body’s Space, the Body’s Time: Feeling Your Way Through Richard Serra’s The Matter of Time 172 Rob Marks 8 The Art of Becoming: The Symbiosis of Time, Space and Film in Pull My Daisy 202 Timothy W. Hiles Conclusion: Limit- Imposing Systems 228 Sarah J. Lippert Bibliography 231 Index 248 viii
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