Objects in Air
Artworks and Their Outside around 1900
- Contents

Politics of Extravagation
Mesologies of Form
Medium and Milieu, or the Material Spaces of Air
World Loss, Sitelessness, and the Artwork’s Environments
Aurai and Aura (Form and Space)
Empathetic Artworks, Extensive Subjects
1. Aer, Aurae, Venti: Warburg’s Aerial Forms and Historical Milieus
Anima Fiorentina
Inspiration
Stimmung/Atmosphere
Milieu as Air Ambiant
The Accessories’ Milieu
Botticelli’s Milieu
The Physiology of Influence
Disciplinary Milieus
2. Luftraum: Riegl’s Vitalist Mesology of Form
Horror vacui
Umgebung
Indehiscent Forms
Cubic Space (“Air-Filled Empty Space”)
Air Space
Respiración
External Unity
Kunstwollen
3. Saturated Forms: Rilke’s and Rodin’s Sculpture of Environment
Reticence and Radiance
Aesthetico-Biological Endeavors
“Archaic Torso of Apollo”
Aesthetic Metabolisms
Absorbed Milieus
Gravid Forms
Forms Striving for Incompletion
Temporal Ecstasis
4. The “Kinesphere” and the Body’s Other Spatial Envelopes in Rudolf Laban’s Theory of Dance
Choreutics
Spatiomaterial Radiance
Psychophysiologically Saturated Space
Anima, Air, Atmosphere: Laban and Kandinsky
Luftkur, Plein Air
Dance’s Biological and Architectural Lifeworlds
Coda. Space as Form
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Art: Art Criticism | Art--General Studies | European Art
History: History of Ideas
Literature and Literary Criticism: Germanic Languages
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