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: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 022634715X
• ISBN13: 9780226347158
• Release Date: June 2022
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.4"