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Herder combines rationalist and empiricist thought with a wide range of sources - from the classics to Norse legend, Shakespeare to the Bible - to illuminate the ways we experience sculpture.

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"Herder on sculpture: "The eye that gathers impressions is no longer the eye that sees a depiction on a surface; it becomes a hand, the ray of light becomes a finger, and the imagination becomes a form of immediate touching.

Sculpture Some Observations on Shape and Form

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    A Paperback / softback by Johann Gottfried Herder, Jason Gaiger

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      Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
      Publication Date: 15/10/2002
      ISBN13: 9780226327556, 978-0226327556
      ISBN10: 0226327558
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      History of art The arts: general topics Theory of art

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Herder combines rationalist and empiricist thought with a wide range of sources - from the classics to Norse legend, Shakespeare to the Bible - to illuminate the ways we experience sculpture.

      Trade Review
      "Herder on sculpture: "The eye that gathers impressions is no longer the eye that sees a depiction on a surface; it becomes a hand, the ray of light becomes a finger, and the imagination becomes a form of immediate touching.

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