Bronzino’s Del pennello and the Pleasures of Art Abstract Agnolo Bronzino was a Florentine artist in the sphere of the Medici court who was also an accomplished and recognized poet. His most appreciated poems were in the genres of parody and burlesque humor that often employed sexual puns and metaphors as expressive means. This article… Continue reading 24.2 | Bette Talvacchia
Month: November 2014
24.2 | Frank Brandsma
Verlangen als verhaalmotor: lust, list en liefde in de middeleeuwse literatuur Abstract The sin of lust proves to be a powerful story engine in medieval romance and other genres. King Uther’s lust allows Merlin to manipulate him into fathering Arthur; a devil sleeps with Merlin’s pious mother and Lancelot’s desire for the queen makes it… Continue reading 24.2 | Frank Brandsma
Joke Brasser | Bas Jan Ader’s Art in Relation to the Romantic and Postmodern Sublime: Gravity – Passibility – Sublimity
Abstract This article discusses several works from the Dutch/Californian conceptual artist Bas Jan Ader (1942-1975). It relates these works of Ader to different cultural concepts of the sublime; the romantic and the postmodern sublime. The interpretation moves away from simply identifying Ader as a romantic artist and his oeuvre as concerned with the romantic sublime,… Continue reading Joke Brasser | Bas Jan Ader’s Art in Relation to the Romantic and Postmodern Sublime: Gravity – Passibility – Sublimity
Charlotte van Oostrum | Listen to those Trains a-Hummin’: Beweging en improvisatie in ‘jazzy’ literatuur
Abstract According to the African- American writer Toni Morrison, her novel Jazz is based on the structure of jazz music. This article analyzes the way in which this “jazzy structure” functions within the novel. In order to do so, the bipartite chronotope of the ship (sound and movement) is used as a concept to engage… Continue reading Charlotte van Oostrum | Listen to those Trains a-Hummin’: Beweging en improvisatie in ‘jazzy’ literatuur
Vincent Meelberg | Gewelddadige geluiden: de agressie van muzikale narrativiteit
Abstract “Variation 10” (1996), a free improvisation by the British saxophonist Evan Parker, is an act of aggression. More precisely, as I will argue in this essay, the music tells a story about the violence this piece induces on both the listener and the performer. Moreover, according to the French philosopher Alain Badiou, artworks such… Continue reading Vincent Meelberg | Gewelddadige geluiden: de agressie van muzikale narrativiteit
Krisztina Lajosi | Wagner and the (Re)mediation of Art: Gesamtkunstwerk and Nineteenth-Century Theories of Media
Abstract In the works of many nineteenthcentury European writers and artists there is an increased awareness of the form and medium of the artistic expression which is seen not simply as a convention or as the outer shell of the artwork, but as its guiding tenet. This article focuses on the idea of the Gesamtkunstwerk… Continue reading Krisztina Lajosi | Wagner and the (Re)mediation of Art: Gesamtkunstwerk and Nineteenth-Century Theories of Media
Howard Stern | On Mahler’s Cuckoos: Ironies of Text and Music
Abstract The third movement of Gustav Mahler’s Third Symphony is a purely instrumental scherzando arrangement of the composer’s earlier song for voice and piano “Ablösung im Sommer,” which thematizes the singing styles of cuckoo and nightingale. Standard interpretations of the symphony read the movement as little more than an “animal fantasy” – halfway between the… Continue reading Howard Stern | On Mahler’s Cuckoos: Ironies of Text and Music