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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... sense of framing the narrative depends upon Alberti's prac- tice of using a frame to designate a fictional space . The frame is the hypo- thetical window through which the painter peers in order to visualize the historia . Having ...
... sense , the work of art is a direct representation of the actuality in which it inheres ; the content of the artifice is a metaphor for an underlying form , which is the work's abiding essence . In our sec- ond sense , the work of art ...
... sense of actuality , which otherwise would be a pointless concurrence of disparate , unrelated phe- nomena . With this slang sense of framing , we approach the conundrum of Magritte's Human Condition . Few works of sixteenth - century ...
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The Subtext of Form | 33 |
Form as Optimism | 69 |
The Discourse About Otherness | 119 |
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