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Images, Improvisations, Sound, and Silence from 1000 to 1800 - Degree Zero (Hardcover, 0)
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Images, Improvisations, Sound, and Silence from 1000 to 1800 - Degree Zero (Hardcover, 0)
Series: Knowledge Communities
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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.
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