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The Forces of Form in German Modernism /

The Forces of Form in German Modernism charts a modern history of form as emergent from force. Offering a provocative alternative to the imagery of crisis and estrangement that has preoccupied scholarship on modernism, Malika Maskarinec shows that German modernism conceives of human bodies and aesth...

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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Maskarinec, Malika (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2018
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • part I. An aesthetics of heaviness
  • Prelude : Schopenhauer on weight and the will
  • Reading Rodin's vertiginous bodies
  • part II. Empathy and abstraction
  • Lines of force : empathy aesthetics, 1870-1910
  • Klee's composition in suspension
  • part III. Poetic gravity
  • Kafka's kinetics
  • Franz Biberkopf and the unbearable heaviness of being.