Neoplatonic aesthetics : music, literature & the visual arts /
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| Imprint: | New York : Peter Lang, c2004. |
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| Description: | viii, 288 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5570801 |
Table of Contents:
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I. Music
- One Instrument (Ney) and Two Philosophical Traditions
- The Art of Flute-Playing in Proclus, the Neoplatonist
- The Neoplatonic Approach of Proclus to Music in Relation to Politics and Metaphysics
- Grammar, Rhetoric and Music: Zarlino's Theories and Pierre Boulez: "L'Artisanat Furieux" from Le Marteau Sans Maitre
- Part II. Literature
- Plato's Heritage in the Arts: Form as Essence
- "...if one had the power to look at the god in oneself"--Metaphysics as Hermeneutics in the Aesthetics of Plotinus
- Translator as Commentator: Stephen MacKenna's Views on Spiritual Transcendence
- Moral Life and the Experience of Beauty: Iris Murdoch's Pilgrimage from Fantasy into Reality
- Part III. Visual Arts
- A Humanist Reading of Fra Angelico's Frescoes at San Marco
- The Neoplatonic Aesthetics of Leon Battista Alberti
- Plotinus, Marsilio Ficino, and Renaissance Art
- David's Other: Creation by the Gaze
- Michelangelo's Artistic Captivity as Mirrored in His Neoplatonic Captives
- Giorgio Vasari's Neoplatonic Cosmology: The Planets
- Platonic Thought in American Design Theory c. 1900
- Neoplatonic Origins of Postmodern Art and Architecture
- Selected Bibliography
- List of Contributors
