Essays on Literature and Art
Author | : Walter Pater |
Publisher | : J M Dent & Sons Limited |
Total Pages | : 175 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9780460870092 |
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Author | : Walter Pater |
Publisher | : J M Dent & Sons Limited |
Total Pages | : 175 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9780460870092 |
Author | : Charles Harrison |
Publisher | : MIT Press |
Total Pages | : 350 |
Release | : 2003-09-12 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9780262582414 |
Critical and theoretical essays by a long-time participant in the Art & Language movement. These essays by art historian and critic Charles Harrison are based on the premise that making art and talking about art are related enterprises. They are written from the point of view of Art & Language, the artistic movement based in England—and briefly in the United States—with which Harrison has been associated for thirty years. Harrison uses the work of Art & Language as a central case study to discuss developments in art from the 1950s through the 1980s. According to Harrison, the strongest motivation for writing about art is that it brings us closer to that which is other than ourselves. In seeing how a work is done, we learn about its achieved identity: we see, for example, that a drip on a Pollock is integral to its technical character, whereas a drip on a Mondrian would not be. Throughout the book, Harrison uses specific examples to address a range of questions about the history, theory, and making of modern art—questions about the conditions of its making and the nature of its public, about the problems and priorities of criticism, and about the relations between interpretation and judgment.
Author | : Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 281 |
Release | : 2018-06-05 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0691187177 |
Translated by Ellen von Nardroff and Ernest H. von Nardroff The reflections on art and literature that Goethe produced throughout his life are the premise and corollary of his work as poet, novelist, and man of science. This volume contains such important essays as "On Gothic Architecture," "On the Laocoon Group," and "Shakespeare: A Tribute." Several works in this collection appear for the first time unabridged and in fresh translations.
Author | : Alexandra Kingston-Reese |
Publisher | : University of Iowa Press |
Total Pages | : 193 |
Release | : 2021-12-15 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 1609388119 |
Art Essays is a passionate collection of the best essays on the visual arts written by contemporary novelists. With an introduction by literary critic and editor Alexandra Kingston-Reese, Art Essays is an enthralling vision of a new wave of literary essays shaping contemporary culture.
Author | : Charles Rosen |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 647 |
Release | : 2012-05-21 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 0674069897 |
Is there a moment in history when a work receives its ideal interpretation? Or is negotiation always required to preserve the past and accommodate the present? The freedom of interpretation, Charles Rosen suggests in these sparkling explorations of music and literature, exists in a delicate balance with fidelity to the identity of the original work. Rosen cautions us to avoid doctrinaire extremes when approaching art of the past. To understand Shakespeare only as an Elizabethan or Jacobean theatergoer would understand him, or to modernize his plays with no sense of what they bring from his age, deforms the work, making it less ambiguous and inherently less interesting. For a work to remain alive, it must change character over time while preserving a valid witness to its earliest state. When twentieth-century scholars transformed Mozart's bland, idealized nineteenth-century image into that of a modern revolutionary expressionist, they paradoxically restored the reputation he had among his eighteenth-century contemporaries. Mozart became once again a complex innovator, challenging to perform and to understand. Drawing on a variety of critical methods, Rosen maintains that listening or reading with intensity-for pleasure-is the one activity indispensable for full appreciation. It allows us to experience multiple possibilities in literature and music, and to avoid recognizing only the revolutionary elements of artistic production. By reviving the sense that works of art have intrinsic merits that bring pleasure, we justify their continuing existence.
Author | : Wole Soyinka |
Publisher | : Pantheon |
Total Pages | : 344 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : |
Never less than profound, Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka's fierce and provocative contribution to the debate on multiculturalism brings together 19 iconoclastic essays on African, European, and American literature, culture, and politics. "Unquestionably Africa's most versatile writer".--New York Times
Author | : Arthur Schopenhauer |
Publisher | : DigiCat |
Total Pages | : 92 |
Release | : 2022-05-28 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : |
The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer; Studies in Pessimism is a set of essays by the philosopher Schopenhauer. They depict a type of pessimism that springs from elevating will above reason, as the driving force of human thought and conduct.
Author | : Walter Pater |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 192 |
Release | : 1973 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : |
Author | : David Kennedy |
Publisher | : Manchester University Press |
Total Pages | : 394 |
Release | : 2018-12-05 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1526125811 |
This book offers a comprehensive reassessment of ekphrasis: the verbal representation of visual art. Ekphrasis has been traditionally regarded as a form of paragone (competition) between word and image. This interdisciplinary collection of essays seeks to complicate this critical paradigm and proposes a more reciprocal model of ekphrasis that involves an encounter or exchange between visual and textual cultures. This critical and theoretical shift demands a new form of ekphrastic poetics, which is less concerned with representational and institutional struggles, and more concerned with ideas of ethics, affect and intersubjectivity. Ekphrastic encounters brings together leading scholars working in the field of word-and-image studies and offers a fresh exploration of ekphrastic texts from the Renaissance to the present day. Taken together, the chapters establish a new set of theoretical frameworks for exploring the ekphrastic encounter.
Author | : George Orwell |
Publisher | : Renard Press Ltd |
Total Pages | : 15 |
Release | : 2021-01-01 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 1913724263 |
George Orwell set out ‘to make political writing into an art’, and to a wide extent this aim shaped the future of English literature – his descriptions of authoritarian regimes helped to form a new vocabulary that is fundamental to understanding totalitarianism. While 1984 and Animal Farm are amongst the most popular classic novels in the English language, this new series of Orwell’s essays seeks to bring a wider selection of his writing on politics and literature to a new readership. In Why I Write, the first in the Orwell’s Essays series, Orwell describes his journey to becoming a writer, and his movement from writing poems to short stories to the essays, fiction and non-fiction we remember him for. He also discusses what he sees as the ‘four great motives for writing’ – ‘sheer egoism’, ‘aesthetic enthusiasm’, ‘historical impulse’ and ‘political purpose’ – and considers the importance of keeping these in balance. Why I Write is a unique opportunity to look into Orwell’s mind, and it grants the reader an entirely different vantage point from which to consider the rest of the great writer’s oeuvre. 'A writer who can – and must – be rediscovered with every age.' — Irish Times