Jason Gaiger
Dr Jason Gaiger is Head of the Ruskin School of Drawing & Fine Art and a Fellow of St Edmund Hall. He studied art history and philosophy at the universities of St Andrews, Essex and Heidelberg, and was previously Senior Lecturer and Director of Research in the Art History Department at the Open University.
His publications include Aesthetics and Painting (Continuum, 2008), an English edition of Johann Gottfried Herder’s Sculpture (University of Chicago Press, 2002) and, as co-editor, Art in Theory: 1648-1815 (Blackwell, 2000) and Art in Theory: 1815-1900 (Blackwell, 1998).
Jason’s principal research interests are in aesthetics and art theory from the mid-seventeenth century through to the present day with a special emphasis on theories of depiction and visual meaning, and on twentieth-century and contemporary art practice. His current research focuses on the normativity of aesthetic judgment and the elusive relationship between verbal and visual modes of thinking.
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