Theory of Form: Gerhard Richter and Art in the Pragmatist Age

A pragmatist conception of artistic form, through a study of the painter Gerhard Richter.

In this study of the practice of contemporary painter Gerhard Richter, Florian Klinger proposes a fundamental change in the way we think about art today. In reaction to the exhaustion of the modernist-postmodernist paradigm's negotiation of the "essence of art," he takes Richter to pursue a pragmatist model that understands artistic form as action. Here form is no longer conceived according to what i...