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dc.contributor.authorMeyertholen, Andrea
dc.date.accessioned2021-07-22T17:56:15Z
dc.date.available2021-07-22T17:56:15Z
dc.date.issued2019
dc.identifier.citationMeyertholen, Andrea. “Zum ersten Mal sah ich ein Bild:” Goethe’s Cognitive Viewing Subject as Scientist and Artist.” Seminar: A Journal of Germanic Studies, vol. 55, no. 3, 2019, pp. 203–22en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1808/31805
dc.description.abstractThis article investigates the significance of Goethean natural science for the development of abstract modes of painting that would emerge with Wassily Kandinsky in the early twentieth century. While early abstractionists like Kandinsky unveiled their artworks with publications providing intellectual justification for an objectless art, a theoretical framework for a mode of viewing necessary for engaging with abstract art was already in existence, having been conceived by Goethe in his 1792 essay “Versuch als Vermittler von Objekt und Subjekt.” Close reading of this text reveals a primary model for a cognitive viewing subject who draws on sensory experience and cognitive faculties to assume a critically significant degree of subjectivity in aesthetic encounters. To demonstrate how the mode of viewing theorized by Goethe might operate in praxis, this article analyzes an exemplary moment of spectatorship credited for bringing about abstract art: Kandinsky’s storied first encounter with Claude Monet’s Haystacks.en_US
dc.publisherUniversity of Toronto Pressen_US
dc.rights© Seminar: A Journal of Germanic Studies 2019
dc.subjectAbstract arten_US
dc.subjectCognitionen_US
dc.subjectGoetheen_US
dc.subjectKandinskyen_US
dc.subjectMoneten_US
dc.subjectMorphologyen_US
dc.subjectScience and aestheticsen_US
dc.subjectVisual perceptionen_US
dc.title“Zum ersten Mal sah ich ein Bild:” Goethe’s Cognitive Viewing Subject as Scientist and Artisten_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
kusw.kuauthorMeyertholen, Andrea
kusw.kudepartmentGerman Studiesen_US
dc.identifier.doi10.3138/seminar.55.3.1en_US
kusw.oaversionScholarly/refereed, author accepted manuscripten_US
kusw.oapolicyThis item meets KU Open Access policy criteria.en_US
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