Inspiration : Bacchus and the cultural history of a creation myth /
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| Author / Creator: | Moffitt, John F. (John Francis), 1940-2008 |
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| Imprint: | Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2005. |
| Description: | xii, 383 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Philosophy of history and culture, 0922-6001 ; v. 22 |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5633989 |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction : a personification of "inspiration"
- Ch. 1. The modern condition of "inspiration"
- Ch. 2. Michelangelo's Bacchus as a historical metaphor
- Ch. 3. The classical sources of "inspiration"
- Ch. 4. Post-classical and Christian "inspiration"
- Ch. 5. The neoplatonic Bacchus of the Renaissance
- Ch. 6. The emblematic Bacchus and "inspired" art-making
- Ch. 7. Post-Renaissance "inspiration," from the Enlightenment to the romantics
- Ch. 8. A Dionysus reborn for the symbolist era
- Ch. 9. Dionysiac ecstasy and modernist art-worship
- Ch. 10. Surrealist Dionysian myth and gestural performance art
- Ch. 11. The inspired shaman-artist : the case of Joseph Beuys
- Ch. 12. Something like a post-modernist finale.
