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Inspiration : Bacchus and the cultural history of a creation myth /
"The purpose of this book is to reveal the antique pedigree of a now commonplace term, Inspiration, an essential creation-myth now propelling notions of self-expression in modern art-making. Knowledge of the ancient sources of such supposedly modernist fixations will make a significant contribu...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
2005.
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| Colección: | Philosophy of history and culture ;
v. 22. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Dedication & Epigraphs; List of Illustrations; Introduction: A Personification of "Inspiration"; Chapter 1: The Modern Condition of "Inspiration"; Chapter 2: Michelangelo's Bacchus as a Historical Metaphor; Chapter 3: The Classical Sources of "Inspiration"; Chapter 4: Post-Classical and Christian "Inspiration"; Chapter 5: The Neoplatonic Bacchus of the Renaissance; Chapter 6: The Emblematic Bacchus and "Inspired" Art-Making; Chapter 7: Post-Renaissance "Inspiration" from the Enlightenment to the Romantics; Chapter 8: A Dionysus Reborn for the Symbolist Era.
- Chapter 9: Dionysiac Ecstasy and Modernist Art-WorshipChapter 10: Surrealist Dionysian Myth and Gestural Performance Art; Chapter 11: The Inspired Shaman-Artist: The Case of Joseph Beuys; Chapter 12: Something Like a Post-Modernist Finale; Illustrations; Bibliography; Index.