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.

• Introduction1. "Projective" and "Ampliative" Imagining Jason Gaiger2. Sculpture, Embodiment, and History: Reassessing Hegel and WinckelmannKristin Gjesdal3. The Temporality of the Figure in SculptureAlex Potts4. Cubic Form: Carl Einstein’s Philosophically Realist Theory of SculptureAndrei Pop5. African Sculpture: Interrelating the Verbal and Visual in Yorùbá AestheticsBarry Hallen6. The Persistence of the Body in Sculpture after AbstractionIngvild Torsen7. Sculpture on the Verge of Architecture: Reflections on Gordon Matta-ClarkFred Rush8. Material, Medium, and Sculptural ImaginingJonathan Gilmore9. Materials and Meaning in Contemporary SculptureSherri Irvin10. The Sculpted Image?Robert Hopkins

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