Theory of FormA 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 paradigms negotiation of the essence of art, he takes Richter to pursue a pragmatist model that understands artistic form as action. Here form is no