1.

Record Nr.

UNISA996208534403316

Autore

Doorman Maarten

Titolo

Art in progress : a philosophical response to the end of the avant-garde / / Maarten Doorman ; translated from the Dutch by Sherry Marx

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam : , : Amsterdam University Press, , 2003

ISBN

1-280-95882-0

9786610958825

90-485-0513-5

0-585-49537-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (181 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Disciplina

111.85

Soggetti

Aesthetics

Avant-garde (Aesthetics)

Progress

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 15 Jan 2021).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Contents -- Foreword / Doorman, Maarten -- Introduction -- 1. Perspectives On Progress: A History -- 2. From The Ancients And The Moderns: A Door To The Future -- 3. From Romanticism To The Avant-Garde -- 4. On Making Revolution -- 5. Innovation In Painting And Architecture: De Stijl -- 6. The End Of Art -- 7. A New Approach To An Old Concept -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index Of Names

Sommario/riassunto

In this challenging essay, Maarten Doorman argues that in art, belief in progress is still relevant, if not essential. The radical freedoms of postmodernism, he claims, have had a crippling effect on art, leaving it in danger of becoming meaningless. Art can only acquire meaning through context; the concept of progress, then, is ideal as the primary criterion for establishing that context. The history of art, in fact, can be seen as a process of constant accumulation, works of art commenting on one another and enriching one another's meanings. It is these complex interrelationships and the progress they create in both art and its observers that Doorman, in a display of great philosophical erudition, defends.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910153749703321

Autore

Bampi Massimiliano

Titolo

Bridges to Scandinavia / / Andrea Meregalli, Camilla Storskog

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Milano, : Ledizioni, 2019

ISBN

88-5526-042-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (283 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

BerardiniAndrea

BernardiniLuca

Di VenosaElena

FerrariAlessia

FincoDavide

LombardiMaria Cristina

LonatiElisabetta

ManeraDanilo

MarelliPaolo

MeregalliAndrea

PaleariMoira

PerrelliFranco

PutignanoElena

SilanderSusann

SpazzaliPaola

StorskogCamilla

ZulianiFederico

Soggetti

Scandinavian literature - History and criticism

Scandinavian literature - Appreciation - Europe

Scandinavian literature - Appreciation - United States

Scandinavia Relations Europe

Scandinavia Relations United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia



Sommario/riassunto

This volume is the final output of a project started in 2013 on the occasion of the fortieth anniversary of the Scandinavian Section of the University of Milan. A group of scholars working on different European and non-European cultural and literary traditions come together here to discuss the relationships between their areas of study and the Nordic countries. The range of the contributions expands over time and space, from the Middle Ages to the present day, from Poland in the east to the United States in the west, across various European countries. Through various kinds of expertise and different perspectives, this intercultural discourse deals with diverse themes, including the perception of Nordic culture(s) by foreign writers as well as the image of other cultures in Scandinavian works. In particular, the literary and cultural interchange of models and ideas between the North and other areas is investigated in a number of essays devoted to numerous authors, including, among others, Klaus Böldl, Carmen de Burgos, Carlo Emilio Gadda, Gerhart Hauptmann, Henrik Ibsen, Stieg Larsson, Carl von Linné, Rainer Maria Rilke, J.D. Salinger, Henryk Sienkiewicz, Mme de Staël, August Strindberg, and Tomas Tranströmer.