Magnificence and the Sublime in Medieval Aesthetics
Title | Magnificence and the Sublime in Medieval Aesthetics PDF eBook |
Author | S. Jaeger |
Publisher | Palgrave Macmillan |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2010-11-17 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9780230618985 |
These essays recover the lively discussions on the topics of 'magnificence' and 'the sublime' in the art and literature of antiquity, the Renaissance, and the ages following, and apply them to the Middle Ages to draw exciting new conlcusions.
Art and Beauty in the Middle Ages
Title | Art and Beauty in the Middle Ages PDF eBook |
Author | Umberto Eco |
Publisher | Yale University Press |
Pages | 160 |
Release | 2002-01-01 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 9780300093049 |
In this authoritative, lively book, the celebrated Italian novelist and philosopher Umberto Eco presents a learned summary of medieval aesthetic ideas. Juxtaposing theology and science, poetry and mysticism, Eco explores the relationship that existed between the aesthetic theories and the artistic experience and practice of medieval culture. "[A] delightful study. . . . [Eco's] remarkably lucid and readable essay is full of contemporary relevance and informed by the energies of a man in love with his subject." --Robert Taylor, Boston Globe "The book lays out so many exciting ideas and interesting facts that readers will find it gripping." --Washington Post Book World "A lively introduction to the subject." --Michael Camille, The Burlington Magazine "If you want to become acquainted with medieval aesthetics, you will not find a more scrupulously researched, better written (or better translated), intelligent and illuminating introduction than Eco's short volume." --D. C. Barrett, Art Monthly
Medieval Aesthetics
Title | Medieval Aesthetics PDF eBook |
Author | C. Barrett |
Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Pages | 324 |
Release | 2015-08-31 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 3110808226 |
This three volume set is a comprehensive account of the development of European aesthetics from the time of the ancient Greeks to the 1700s. This second volume focuses on eastern and western aesthetics in the Middle Ages.
Vernacular Aesthetics in the Later Middle Ages
Title | Vernacular Aesthetics in the Later Middle Ages PDF eBook |
Author | Katharine W. Jager |
Publisher | Palgrave Macmillan |
Pages | 312 |
Release | 2020-08-14 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9783030183363 |
Vernacular Aesthetics in the Later Middle Ages explores the formal composition, public performance, and popular reception of vernacular poetry, music, and prose within late medieval French and English cultures. This collection of essays considers the extra-literary and extra-textual methods by which vernacular forms and genres were obtained and examines the roles that performance and orality play in the reception and dissemination of those genres, arguing that late medieval vernacular forms can be used to delineate the interests and perspectives of the subaltern. Via an interdisciplinary approach, contributors use theories of multimodality, translation, manuscript studies, sound studies, gender studies, and activist New Formalism to address how and for whom popular, vernacular medieval forms were made.
The Experience of Beauty in the Middle Ages
Title | The Experience of Beauty in the Middle Ages PDF eBook |
Author | Mary Carruthers |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 254 |
Release | 2013-04-25 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 019959032X |
Uses lexical analyses of key terms employed by medieval people to valuate their own aesthetic feelings to show how flux and change, and the creative tension of antithetical physical qualities from which all things were thought to be made (cold, hot, dry, wet), govern the pleasures medieval artists sought to produce.
The Oxford Handbook of Aesthetics
Title | The Oxford Handbook of Aesthetics PDF eBook |
Author | Jerrold Levinson |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 844 |
Release | 2005-01-27 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 9780199279456 |
'The Oxford Handbook of Aesthetics' has assembled 48 brand-new essays, making this a comprehensive guide available to the theory, application, history, and future of the field.
The Aesthetics of Mimesis
Title | The Aesthetics of Mimesis PDF eBook |
Author | Stephen Halliwell |
Publisher | Princeton University Press |
Pages | 440 |
Release | 2009-01-10 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 140082530X |
Mimesis is one of the oldest, most fundamental concepts in Western aesthetics. This book offers a new, searching treatment of its long history at the center of theories of representational art: above all, in the highly influential writings of Plato and Aristotle, but also in later Greco-Roman philosophy and criticism, and subsequently in many areas of aesthetic controversy from the Renaissance to the twentieth century. Combining classical scholarship, philosophical analysis, and the history of ideas--and ranging across discussion of poetry, painting, and music--Stephen Halliwell shows with a wealth of detail how mimesis, at all stages of its evolution, has been a more complex, variable concept than its conventional translation of "imitation" can now convey. Far from providing a static model of artistic representation, mimesis has generated many different models of art, encompassing a spectrum of positions from realism to idealism. Under the influence of Platonist and Aristotelian paradigms, mimesis has been a crux of debate between proponents of what Halliwell calls "world-reflecting" and "world-simulating" theories of representation in both the visual and musico-poetic arts. This debate is about not only the fraught relationship between art and reality but also the psychology and ethics of how we experience and are affected by mimetic art. Moving expertly between ancient and modern traditions, Halliwell contends that the history of mimesis hinges on problems that continue to be of urgent concern for contemporary aesthetics.