{"product_id":"objects-in-air-9780226764771","title":"Objects in Air","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"In \u003ci\u003eObjects in Air,\u003c\/i\u003e Christian offers a compelling and innovative investigation of the history and theory of the physical and represented space that fills, permeates, or surrounds two- and three-dimensional works of art.\" * Choice *\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eObjects in Air \u003c\/i\u003eis a book deserving of praise. Christian brings tremendous nuance to her analysis of the texts at hand.\" * German Studies Review *\u003cbr\u003e“In this thoroughly original book, Christian traces discourses on the external spaces and atmospheres that surround works of art. She thereby elucidates the artwork’s \u003ci\u003eec-stasis\u003c\/i\u003e—its reaching out into its environment—as an aesthetic category in its own right. A stylistic and intellectual pleasure to read, \u003ci\u003eObjects in Air \u003c\/i\u003eadds significantly to our understanding of early twentieth-century aesthetic thought.” -- Lucia Ruprecht, author of Gestural Imaginaries: Dance and Cultural Theory in the Early Twentieth Century\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eObjects in Air \u003c\/i\u003eis an important and finely conceptualized study of turn-of-the-century writing about the aesthetics of visual phenomena and the conceptualizing of art history. It brings to light a new understanding of the artwork as making its impact, not as a self-contained bounded object, but by way of expanding outward beyond itself in space and time. The carefully honed historical analysis of thinking about the work of art in its spatial and temporal milieus stands as a study in aesthetic theory in its own right, timely and engagingly readable.” -- Alex Potts, author of Experiments in Modern Realism: World Making, Politics and the Everyday in Postwar European and American Art\u003cbr\u003e“This book takes the reader on a journey with surprising views on art and modernism. Focusing on the aerial dimensions, the in-between, and the environmental space of works of art, Christian provides an exciting reframing of the aesthetic and kinesthetic dimensions of art and art theory. She turns our attention to what might be the dance within objects of art: movement, breath, and unboundedness of form.” -- Gabriele Brandstetter, author of Poetics of Dance: Body, Image, and Space in the Historical Avant-Gardes\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction. Artworks and Their Modalities of Egress: The Air within and without Artworks\u003cbr\u003e   Politics of Extravagation\u003cbr\u003e   Mesologies of Form\u003cbr\u003e   Medium and Milieu, or the Material Spaces of Air\u003cbr\u003e   World Loss, Sitelessness, and the Artwork’s Environments\u003cbr\u003e   Aurai and Aura (Form and Space)\u003cbr\u003e   Empathetic Artworks, Extensive Subjects\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 1. Aer, Aurae, Venti: Warburg’s Aerial Forms and Historical Milieus\u003cbr\u003e   Anima Fiorentina\u003cbr\u003e   Inspiration\u003cbr\u003e   Stimmung\/Atmosphere\u003cbr\u003e   Milieu as Air Ambiant\u003cbr\u003e   The Accessories’ Milieu\u003cbr\u003e   Botticelli’s Milieu\u003cbr\u003e   The Physiology of Influence\u003cbr\u003e   Disciplinary Milieus\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 2. Luftraum: Riegl’s Vitalist Mesology of Form\u003cbr\u003e   Horror vacui\u003cbr\u003e   Umgebung\u003cbr\u003e   Indehiscent Forms\u003cbr\u003e   Cubic Space (“Air-Filled Empty Space”)\u003cbr\u003e   Air Space\u003cbr\u003e   Respiración\u003cbr\u003e   External Unity\u003cbr\u003e   Kunstwollen\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 3. Saturated Forms: Rilke’s and Rodin’s Sculpture of Environment\u003cbr\u003e   Reticence and Radiance\u003cbr\u003e   Aesthetico-Biological Endeavors\u003cbr\u003e   “Archaic Torso of Apollo”\u003cbr\u003e   Aesthetic Metabolisms\u003cbr\u003e   Absorbed Milieus\u003cbr\u003e   Gravid Forms\u003cbr\u003e   Forms Striving for Incompletion\u003cbr\u003e   Temporal Ecstasis\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 4. The “Kinesphere” and the Body’s Other Spatial Envelopes in Rudolf Laban’s Theory of Dance\u003cbr\u003e   Choreutics\u003cbr\u003e   Spatiomaterial Radiance\u003cbr\u003e   Psychophysiologically Saturated Space\u003cbr\u003e   Anima, Air, Atmosphere: Laban and Kandinsky\u003cbr\u003e   Luftkur, Plein Air\u003cbr\u003e   Dance’s Biological and Architectural Lifeworlds\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Coda. Space as Form\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Index","brand":"The University of Chicago Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49400112415063,"sku":"9780226764771","price":38.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780226764771.jpg?v=1730469764","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/objects-in-air-9780226764771","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}