Abstract
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.
First Page
43
Last Page
51
Recommended Citation
Gao, Yanping. 2019. "Herder on Sculpture: Touching, Tactility and Body." Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art 39, (5): pp.43-51. https://tsla.researchcommons.org/journal/vol39/iss5/9
