Herder on Sculpture: Touching, Tactility and Body

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art ›› 2019, Vol. 39 ›› Issue (5): 43-51.

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Herder on Sculpture: Touching, Tactility and Body

Gao Yanping

the Institute of Literature, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences in Beijing (CASS)

Online:2019-09-25 Published:2020-03-18
About author:Gao Yanping, Ph. D., is an associate professor in the Institute of Literature, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences in Beijing (CASS). Her interests cover aesthetics, art history, and comparative cultural studies.

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This article aims to elucidate Herder's main theory on sculpture that sculpture is a tactile art, and also tries to construct Herder's implicit theory on "tactility". It argues that Herder's haptic quality is much embodied, and could be divides into two categories, the emphatic and the abstract, the thickly embodied and the thinly embodied. Towards the end this article will demonstrate that the domination of the former nevertheless leads to Herder's partial blindness on the tactility of different sculptures.

Key words: Herder, tactility, haptic quality, sculpture, body

Gao Yanping. Herder on Sculpture: Touching, Tactility and Body[J]. Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art, 2019, 39(5): 43-51.

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