Sculpture: Some Observations on Shape and Form from Pygmalion's Creative Dream
Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2002. Softcover. Black & illus. wraps, 141 pp., 15 BW plates. VG (Bookplate & few marks from previous art-library owner.). Item #139749
ISBN: 0226327558
English translation of "Plastik," "long recognized as one of the most important eighteenth-century works on aesthetics and the visual arts," written by Johann Gottfried Herder (1744-1803) in 1778. "In this landmark essay, Herder combines rationalist and empiricist thought with a wide range of sources -- from the classics to Norse legend, Shakespeare to the Bible -- to illuminate the ways we experience sculpture." (back cover) Edited and translated by Jason Gaiger.
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