Sprezzatura : : Concealing the Effort of Art from Aristotle to Duchamp / / Paolo D'Angelo.
The essence of art is to conceal art. A dancer or musician does not only need to perform with ability. There should also be a lack of visible effort that gives an impression of naturalness. To disguise technique and feign ease is to heighten beauty. To express this notion, Italian has a word with no...
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D'Angelo, Paolo, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Sprezzatura : Concealing the Effort of Art from Aristotle to Duchamp / Paolo D'Angelo. New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [2018] ©2018 1 online resource text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Columbia Themes in Philosophy, Social Criticism, and the Arts Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Preface to the First Edition -- Note to the Second Italian Edition -- 1 Concealment -- 2 Part of Eloquence Is to Hide Eloquence -- 3 The Concealed Ornament -- 4 Art or Nature? -- 5 In the Garden -- 6 Iki -- 7 Those Who Cannot Dissimulate Cannot Rule Either -- 8 True Eloquence Mocks Eloquence -- 9 Ready-Mades -- Notes -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star The essence of art is to conceal art. A dancer or musician does not only need to perform with ability. There should also be a lack of visible effort that gives an impression of naturalness. To disguise technique and feign ease is to heighten beauty. To express this notion, Italian has a word with no exact equivalent in other languages, sprezzatura: a kind of unaffectedness or nonchalance.In this book, the first to consider sprezzatura in its own right, philosopher of art Paolo D'Angelo reconstructs the history of concealing art, from ancient rhetoric to our own times. The word sprezzatura was coined in 1528 by Baldassarre Castiglione in The Book of the Courtier to mean a kind of grace with a special essence: the ability to conceal art. But the idea reaches back to Aristotle and Cicero and forward to avant-garde works such as Duchamp's ready-mades, all of which share the suspicion of the overt display of skill. The precept that art must be hidden turns up in a number of fields, from cosmetics to interior design, politics to poetry, the English garden to shabby chic. Through exploring different articulations of this idea, D'Angelo shows the paradox of aesthetics: art hides that it is art, but in doing so it reveals itself to be art and becomes an assertion about art. When art is concealed, it appears as spontaneous as nature-yet, paradoxically, also reveals its indebtedness to technique. An erudite and surprising tour through aesthetics, philosophy, and art history, Sprezzatura presents a strikingly original argument with deceptive ease. Issued also in print. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Mrz 2022) Art Philosophy. Sprezzatura (Aesthetics). ART / Criticism. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press Complete eBook-Package 2018 9783110606607 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Architecture and Design 2018 9783110602999 ZDB-23-DAD Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Arts, Architecture and Design 2018 English 9783110603972 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2018 English 9783110604252 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2018 9783110603255 ZDB-23-DGG print 9780231175821 https://doi.org/10.7312/dang17582 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780231540346 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780231540346/original |
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