Sculpture: Some Observations on Shape and Form from Pygmalion's Creative Dream

by Johann Gottfried Herder

"The eye that gathers impressions is no longer the eye that sees a depiction on a surface; it becomes a hand, the ray of light becomes a finger, and the imagination becomes a form of immediate touching."-Johann Gottfried Herder

Long recognized as one of the most important eighteenth-century works on aesthetics and the visual arts, Johann Gottfried Herder's Plastik (Sculpture, 1778) has never before appeared in a complete English translation...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226327558
• ISBN13: 9780226327556
• Release Date: October 2002
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 141 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"