Death at Work
A Case Study on Constitutive Blanks in Nineteenth-Century Painting
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4370432 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Wolfgang Kemp, Raymond Meyer |
| Year | 1985 |
| Issue | 10 |
| Pages | 102-123 |
| Publication date | 1985-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Representations (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0734-6018 • E-ISSN: 1533-855X |
| Publisher | University of California Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.2307/3043801 |
| OpenAlex | W4231323418 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 22 |
| References cited | 5 |
IN PAINTING, THEN, the chief thing is the portrayal of a situation, the scene of an action.In this connection the first law is intelligibility." 1 This requirement-and it may come as a surprise-is laid d own in Hegel's Aesthetics.Even at the acme of the id ealist philosophy of art, recognition was accorded to the necessity of offering a plausible, clearly understandable art to a greatly expanded public, one that was as imponderable as it was unknown.In their famous essay of 1798, "Uber d ie Gegenstande der bildenden Kunst" (On the Objects of Plastic and Graphic Art), Goethe and Meyer stated with an unmistakable clarity:We require of every work of art that it constitute a separate totality, and of every work of the plastic and graphic arts in particular that it express itself fully.It must be ind epend ent.The action presented , the object must be apprehended and und erstood for the most part without external assistance, without ancillary explanation that would have to be d rawn from a poet or an historiographer.Just as we would find fault with a poem whose plot and motifs could be und erstood only from append ed notes, so we have cause to be d is satisfied with paintings or statues whose meaning is not obvious to the eye, but must first be looked up in a book or recounted to us. 2
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| Unique citing works | 22 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,59 |
| Citation span | 1989 - 2024 (36) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 18 |