The Subtext of Form in the English Renaissance: Proportion PoeticalPennsylvania State University Press, 1994 - 214 páginas During the sixteenth century in England the logocentrism of the Middle Ages was confronted by a materialism that heralded the modern world. With remarkable tenacity in music, poetry, and painting, the orthodox aesthetic persisted as formal features which served as nonverbal signs and provided a subtext of form. In opposition, however, a radical aesthetic emerged to accommodate the new attention to physical nature. The growing force of materialism occasioned a fundamental rethinking of what an artifact might represent and how that representation might be achieved. This book explores the ontological and epistemological issues that poststructuralist thought raises about that shift in our cultural history. In doing so, it charts a course for Renaissance studies, now in disarray, that avoids the old positivism while not succumbing to the new nihilism. |
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... Painting . When he prepared to paint a picture , Alberti confides , “ I draw a rectan- gle of whatever size I want ... which I regard as an open window through which the subject to be painted is seen . " This statement has been the sem ...
... painting for protection and often for decoration . Of course , a painting had margins , where it ended ; but it did not have a frame as a formally recognized element in its own organization Notice that Magritte's painting within the ...
... painting's subject matter . Like the frame of the window through which Alberti's painter looks , it belongs to the space inhabited by the painter . As a result of this ambiguity , the frame serves a dual function : while it separates the ...
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The Subtext of Form | 33 |
Form as Optimism | 69 |
The Discourse About Otherness | 119 |
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