Images, Improvisations, Sound, and Silence from 1000 to 1800 - Degree Zero (Hardcover, 0)

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.

General

Imprint:	Amsterdam University Press
Country of origin:	Netherlands
Series:	Knowledge Communities
Release date:	August 2018
Editors:	Babette Hellemans • Alissa Jones Nelson
Contributors:	Rokus Groot • Pierre-Olivier Dittmar • Cedric Giraud • Irit Ruth Kleiman • Theo B. Lap • Burcht Pranger • Jean-Claude Schmitt • Asghar Seyed-Gohrab
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 21mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover - Cloth over boards
Pages:	252
Edition:	0
ISBN-13:	978-9462980051
Categories:	Books > Humanities > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history Books > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history
LSN:	9462980055
Barcode:	9789462980051

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