Philosophy of Sculpture

Kristin Gjesdal is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Temple University, USA and Professor II of Philosophy at the University of Oslo, Norway. She is the author of Herder’s Hermeneutics: History, Poetry, Enlightenment (2017), Gadamer and The Legacy of German Idealism (2009), and a number of articles in the areas of aesthetics, hermeneutics, and nineteenth-century philosophy. Fred Rush is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame. He is the author of Irony and Idealism (2016) and On Architecture (Routledge, 2009). He is the editor of The Cambridge Companion to Critical Theory (2004) and for several years also edited the Internationales Jahrbuch des deutschen Idealismus. Ingvild Torsen is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Oslo, Norway. Her work has been published in The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism and The British Journal of Aesthetics.

Introduction

1. "Projective" and "Ampliative" Imagining

Jason Gaiger

2. Sculpture, Embodiment, and History: Reassessing Hegel and Winckelmann

Kristin Gjesdal

3. The Temporality of the Figure in Sculpture

Alex Potts

4. Cubic Form: Carl Einstein’s Philosophically Realist Theory of Sculpture

Andrei Pop

5. African Sculpture: Interrelating the Verbal and Visual in Yorùbá Aesthetics

Barry Hallen

6. The Persistence of the Body in Sculpture after Abstraction

Ingvild Torsen

7. Sculpture on the Verge of Architecture: Reflections on Gordon Matta-Clark

Fred Rush

8. Material, Medium, and Sculptural Imagining

Jonathan Gilmore

9. Materials and Meaning in Contemporary Sculpture

Sherri Irvin

10. The Sculpted Image?

Robert Hopkins