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Improvisation as art : conceptual challenges, historical perspectives / Edgar Landgraf.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Landgraf, Edgar, 1967- author.
- Series:
- New directions in German studies ; v. 1.
- New directions in German studies ; v. 1
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Aesthetics, Modern--18th century.
- Aesthetics, Modern.
- Aesthetics, Modern--19th century.
- Art, Modern--18th century.
- Art, Modern.
- Art, Modern--19th century.
- Improvisation in art.
- Romanticism--Germany.
- Romanticism.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (176 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Continuum, 2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Improvisation as Art traces how modernity''s emphasis on inventiveness has changed the meaning of improvisation; and how the ideals and laws that led improvisation to be banned from ""high art"" in the eighteenth century simultaneously enabled the inventive reintegration of improvisation into modernism. After an in-depth exploration of contemporary theoretical contentions surrounding improvisation, Landgraf examines how the new emphasis on inventiveness affects the understanding of improvisation in the emerging aesthetic and anthropological discourses of the late 18th and early 19th centurie
- Contents:
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: On Conceptualizing Improvisation
- 1. Performance, Inventiveness and Improvisation: Theoretical Contentions: 1.1 Derrida's Inventiveness ; 1.2 Calculating Incalculability: The Neocybernetic Alternative ; 1.3 From Iteration to Improvisation
- 2. Indescribability, Perfection, Unpredictability: Improvisation and Aesthetic Autonomy: 2.1 Instrumentalizing Improvisation? Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ; 2.2 Improvisation and Aesthetic Autonomy ; 2.3 Improvisation and Aesthetic Perfection: Karl Philipp Moritz ; 2.4 Improvisation and the Artist-Genius
- 3. Staged Improvisation: The Generative Principles of Romantic Irony: 3.1 Reframing the Space of the Theater ; 3.2 Staged Improvisation ; 3.3 Romantic Principles of Artistic Production ; 3.4 Social Bearings
- 4. Improvisation, Agency, Autonomy. Heinrich von Kleist and the Modern Predicament: 4.1 Facilitating Prohibitions ; 4.2 Improvisation as Political Practice ; 4.3 The Incalculability of Calculation ; 4.4 Kleist's Pedagogical Program Conclusion: Experiencing Improvisation as Art Works Cited.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [153]-162) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781441146946
- 1441146946
- 9781628926781
- 1628926783
- 9781441199324
- 1441199322
- OCLC:
- 880459083
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