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

by 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 paradigm's negotiation of the "essence of art," he takes Richter to pursue a pragmatist model that understands artistic form as action...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 022634701X
• ISBN13: 9780226347011
• Release Date: June 2022
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.6" x 8.6"