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This scholarly work, 'Figures of Radical Absence' by Alexandra Irimia, explores the concept of absence in theory, literature, and the arts. It delves into how absence and voids can be generative principles in various forms of creative expression. The book examines theoretical frameworks from thinkers like Heidegger and Derrida, and applies these ideas to literary and artistic contexts, considering the poetics and politics of absence. It addresses topics such as empty signifiers and figures of absence in curatorial practices, performative arts, and experimental cinema. Aimed at an academic audience, it offers a comprehensive investigation into how absence shapes meaning and artistic production.
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In Affinities, Brian Dillon explores images and artists he is drawn to or loves, and tries to analyze the attraction. What do we mean when we claim affinity with an object or picture, or say that affinities exist (not only formal) between such things? What do feelings of affinity imply about individual or collective experience of art, and of the world? The word ‘affinity’ used to mean an attraction of opposites, between chemical elements. In his Elective Affinities, Goethe used the idea to think about the orbits and collisions of love. In the poetry and essays of Baudelaire, the writings of Walter Benjamin and Aby Warburg, the art of Tacita Dean and Moyra Davey, a partly buried history of affinity can be found. Affinities is a critical and personal study of a sensation that is not exactly taste, desire, or allyship, but has aspects of all. Approaching this subject via discrete examples, this book is first of all about images – mostly photographs – that have stayed with the author over many years, or grown in significance during months of pandemic isolation, when the visual field had shrunk. Some of these are historical works by artists such as Julia Margaret Cameron, Dora Maar, Claude Cahun, Samuel Beckett and Andy Warhol. Others are more or less obscure scientific or vernacular images: sea creatures, migraine auras, astronomical illustrations derived from dreams. Also family photographs, film stills, records of atomic ruin. And contemporary art by Rinko Kawauchi, Susan Hiller and John Stezaker. Written as a series of linked essays, interwoven with a reflection on affinity itself, Affinities completes a trilogy, with Essayism and Suppose a Sentence, about the intimate and abstract pleasures of reading and looking.
Art --- Art criticism --- Art and literature --- History
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Intermediality, figurability, iconotext, visual exegesis: these are some of the many new ways in which the relationship between text and image has been explored in recent decades. Scholars have benefited from theoretical work in the fields of anthropology, psychoanalysis, and semiotics, alongside more traditional fields such as literature, art history and cultural history. Focusing on religious texts and images between 1400 and 1700, the essays gathered in this volume contribute to these developments by grounding their case studies in methodology. In considering various relations between the visual and the verbal, the editors have adopted the broadest position possible, emphasizing the phenomenological point of view from which the objects under discussion are examined. Contributors to this volume: Ralph Dekoninck, Anna Dlabačová, Grégory Ems, Ingrid Falque, Agnès Guiderdoni, Walter S. Melion, Kees Schepers, Paul J. Smith, and Elliott D. Wise.
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"Tableaux piétinés, brûlés ou lapidés, statues mutilées, refondues ou enterrées... Comment comprendre que, de Balzac et Gogol jusqu'à Perec, Michon ou Reza, les écrivains aient été tentés de faire fiction de la destruction d'une œuvre d'art ? Ce livre recense les différents gestes iconoclastes qui ne renoncent pas à nous donner à voir ces œuvres dans l'instant même où elles sont rendues invisibles. Ce sont autant de tableaux fantômes, dont on s'emploie ici à décrire les modes paradoxaux de création par destruction dans la fiction littéraire."--Page 4 of cover.
Art and literature --- French literature --- History. --- History and criticism.
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Leonardo’s Fables explores the compositional methods and sources of Leonardo’s fables and their relationship to illustrations and scientific studies. By concentrating on the chaotic character of Leonardo’s textual and visual annotations, the author gradually discloses the artist’s creative thinking that uses the page as a space for experimentation. Fables allow Leonardo to tie together his technical and artistic skills, empirical observation, and experience to reveal the interactive forces at the basis of physical phenomena and the tensions between painting and humanistic culture. This study reevaluates Leonardo’s fables as part of a literary, aesthetic, and scientific project aimed at the investigation of Nature.
Literature and science. --- Art and literature. --- Leonardo, --- Criticism and interpretation.
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À la fin du XIXe et au cours du XXe siècle, des écrivains français se sont engagés dans une collaboration, à la fois originale et fructueuse, avec des compositeurs, pour donner naissance à des œuvres opératiques. Parmi eux, des noms célèbres de la littérature française : Émile Zola, Catulle Mendès, Colette, Jean Cocteau, Paul Valéry, Paul Claudel ou Armand Lunel. Dans cette enquête passionnante, Charlotte Segonzac suit la genèse des œuvres lyriques, de la naissance du travail à quatre mains jusqu’au spectacle final. Elle étudie l’investissement tant humain qu’esthétique de ces créateurs et va sur les traces de leurs exaltations, de leurs espoirs, de leurs doutes, de leurs blessures d’orgueil comme de leurs éventuelles vexations. Elle nous invite à suivre le cheminement mené par ces écrivains, dans une recherche qui n’est plus solitaire, mais d’alliance entre les arts, à découvrir, derrière ces grands hommes de lettres, des librettistes singuliers, passionnés et ambitieux.
Libretto. --- Operas --- Opera --- Authors, French --- Art and literature --- Music and literature
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Mythology, Classical, in literature --- Metamorphosis in literature --- Art and literature --- Ovid,
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Les conceptions dominantes de l'esthétique occidentale contemporaine se montrent tantôt accrochées à l'idée d'un "grand récit", cher aux modernes, tels que vus par les post-modernes, tantôt chevillées à celle d'un émiettement. Elles tendent, de diverses façons, à soumettre les œuvres et leurs propriétés – langage, médium, lieu d'accueil – à des idées ou des systèmes a priori. Parlant de Mallarmé, entre autres, il a été question d'une "révolution du langage poétique" (Kristeva) ou d'une "dissémination" des marques (Derrida). Le présent ouvrage propose, lui, le récit d'un renversement partant de Mallarmé: celui qui, ayant consisté à déduire les œuvres de leur support et de leurs propriétés, continue de se manifester dans les domaines artistiques les plus divers: poésie, roman, arts plastiques, musique, architecture, cinéma.Guy Lelong y montre ainsi, au plus près des œuvres et de leur perception, qu'il est possible d'établir, entre ces différents domaines, une sorte de continuum.
Aesthetics --- Art, Modern --- Esthétique. --- Art et littérature. --- Aesthetics. --- Art and literature.
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Art, Modern --- Literature, Modern --- Art and literature --- Art --- Art et littérature
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