Abstraction and Empathy: A Contribution to the Psychology of Style¶

Worringer, W. (. (1908/1997). Abstraction and Empathy: A Contribution to the Psychology of Style: A Contribution to the Psychology of Style.

Type: Book
Intellectual base: Review or monograph
Year: 1997 this edition · first published 1908
Link: https://monoskop.org/images/a/a2/Worringer_Wilhelm_Abstraction_and_Empathy_1997.pdf
Cited from: art_aesthetics

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Abstraction in Art
- The shift from depicting recognizable objects to expressing emotional or conceptual truths through formal abstraction (Worringer, 1908)
  This sourceIvan R. Dee. Original German: Abstraktion und Einfühlung, Munich: R. Piper, 1908. Distinguishes the empathetic urge (organic depiction) from the abstraction urge (inorganic/geometric form); supports the depict-to-express shift signature (D37-004).
  
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  Worringer distinguishes an organic empathy art from an inorganic abstraction art, but not a shift from depiction to expressing emotional or conceptual truths.
  
  “the urge to abstraction finds its beauty in the life-denying inorganic, in the crystalline”
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