The Enigma of Art: On the Provenance of Artistic Creation

Erscheinungsjahr 2021
ISBN: 978-90-04-44870-4
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 9, 312 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 673 g

Reihe: Studies on the Interaction of Art, Thought and Power

In this book, Gino Zaccaria offers a philosophical meditation on the issue of art in light of its originary sense. He shows how this sense can be fully understood provided that our thinking, on the one hand, returns to the ancient Greek world where it must heed the voice and hints of the goddess Athena, and, on the other hand, listens to “artist-thinkers” close to our current epoch, such as Cézanne, van Gogh and Boccioni. Indeed, the path of this meditation has as its guide the well-known sentence by the painter from Aix-en-Provence, which reads: “Je vous dois la ve´rite´ en peinture, et je vous la dirai !”. What will finally appear in this way will not be an abstract or historical notion of art, but its enigma; that is to say, the promise of “another initiation” of art itself.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Zaccaria, Gino

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ästhetik
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunst, allgemein Kunsttheorie, Kunstphilosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Lexicon of a Thought-Path towards the Provenance of Art

0.1 Preamble

0.2 Path-Word Elucidations

0.3 List of Other Path-Words

0.4 Path-Word Maps

part 1: Potency’s Art, Salubrity’s Art

1 The Dynamism of Boccioni

The Futurist Foundation of Artwork: Immersion into Potency and Energy

1.1 A Brief Premise

1.2 Universal Dynamism

1.3 The Morpho-Radio-Chromatic Model (Potency-Power, Energy, Space-Time)

1.4 Unacceptability (towards Cézanne and van Gogh)

2 The Light of Cézanne

Errantry into the Sun

2.1 Ardour

2.2 First Step: Solar Awfulness, Light and Flagrance

2.3 Second Step: Colour

2.4 Third Step: The Painting of Verity

2.5 Naturalness of the “Grand Magicien”

3 The Frugality of van Gogh

Errantry into the Mistral, into Salubriousness

3.1 “Le ton local”

3.2 Truth and Absconsion

3.3 Nature, Truth and Art

3.4 Wind

3.5 Salubrity and Frugality

part 2: Athena and the Enigma

1: Sciency for Art

4 Elucidations of Some Further Path-Words

4.1 Irrefragableness

4.2 Excandescence

4.3 Businessisation

4.4 The Apperceptive Acception of Truth

4.5 Truth, Verity

4.6 The Scope of Being, Truth and Verity

5 The En-Wording of Art

5.1 The Play

5.2 The Realm of Errantry

6 Science and Sciency, Art and Errantry

6.1 From Science to Sciency

6.2 Sciency for Art

6.3 Mother-Speech

6.4 Art and History, Geniture and Inition

2: Athena

7 Loci of the Goddess

7.1 The Art of Athena

7.2 The Reigning Goddess

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Über Autor(innen)

Gino Zaccaria is Professor of Philosophy and Aesthetics at Bocconi University (Milan). He has published various monographs and essays in the fields of ontology and metaphysics (according to a hermeneutic-phenomenological approach), with particular focus on the dialogue between philosophy, poetry, art and science. His last book is a study on the concept of the Null in the poetical thought of Giacomo Leopardi (Pensare il nulla, Pavia 2015). He has also edited books and published Italian translations of works by Friedrich Hölderlin and Georg Trakl. He is co-editor in chief of the international journal eudia - Yearbook for Philosophy, Poetry and Art (www.eudia.org) and co-director of the international research project ScienzaNuova (www.scienzanuova.org). Presently is he working on a book dedicated to the phenomenology of time and space.