UID:
almafu_9959242277002883
Format:
1 online resource (251 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
90-485-2918-2
Series Statement:
Knowledge communities ; 6
Content:
The act of drawing a line or uttering a word is often seen as integral to the process of making art. This is especially obvious in music and the visual arts, but applies to literature, performance, and other arts as well. These collected essays, written by scholars from diverse fields, take a historical view of the richness of creation out of nothing (creatio ex nihilo) in order to draw out debates, sometimes implicit and sometimes formally stated, about the production and reproduction of cultural meaning in a period of great change and novelty, between the beginnings of the medieval intellectual tradition and the imprint of the Enlightenment. The authors pose the following questions: Do tradition and creativity conflict with one another, or are they complementary? What are the tensions between composition and live performance? What is the role of the audience in perceiving the object of art? Are such objects fixed or flexible? What about the status of the event? Is the event part of creation, in the sense that it disturbs the still waters of historical continuity? These and other questions build on the foundation of Roland Barthes' concept of Degree Zero, offering new insights into what it means to create.
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 14 Dec 2020).
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Ouverture : degree zero between past and future / Babette Hellemans -- Images. The two bodies of the Virgin : on the festival of Cirio de Nazaré / Jean-Claude Schmitt -- The three ages of man and the materialization of an allegory : inquiries on an object at the threshold of modernity / Andrea von Hülsen-Esch -- Lapsus figurae : remarks on iconographic error / Pierre-Olivier Dittmar -- Improvisations. Drawing a line and questioning art / Nicola Suthor -- Fall and rise again / Irit Ruth Kleiman -- Improvisations as a chief pillar of the poetic art in Persian literary tradition / Asghar Seyed-Gohrab -- Sound. Intending the listener / Rokus de Groot -- The sovereign ear : Handel's Water music and aural historiography / Sander van Maas -- Where sound and meaning part : language and performance in early Hebrew poetry / Irene Zwiep -- Silence. Writing about silence and the secret in the twelfth century : monastic variations on a Biblical theme / Cédric Giraud -- An arrangement of silence : shaping monastic identity in Anselm of Canterbury's letter collections / Theo B. Lap -- Dimidia hora : liminal silence in Bernard of Clairvaux, Anselm of Canterbury, and Barack Obama / Burcht Pranger.
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Issued also in print.
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In English.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 94-6298-005-5
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1515/9789048529186
URL:
https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/9789048529186/type/BOOK
