Mnemosyne : The Parallel Between Literature and the Visual Arts.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Praz, Mario.

Series:

The A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts Series

The A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts Series ; v.16

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Aesthetics.

Art and literature.

Art--Philosophy.

Art.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (280 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Princeton : Princeton University Press, 1970.

Summary:

The classic study of the timeless relationship between literature and the visual artsIn his search for a common link between literature and the visual arts, Mario Praz draws on the abundant evidence of mutual understanding and correspondence they have long shared. Praz explains that within literature, each epoch has "its peculiar handwriting or handwritings, which, if one could interpret them, would reveal a character, even a physical appearance," and while these characteristics belong to the general style of a given period, the personality of the writer does not fail to pierce through. Praz contends that something similar occurs in art. He shows how the likeness between the arts within various periods of history can ultimately be traced to structural similarities that arise out of the characteristic way in which the people of a certain epoch see and memorize facts aesthetically. Mnemosyne, at once the goddess of memory and the mother of the muses, presides over this view of the arts. In illustrating her influence, Praz ranges widely through Western sources, providing an incomparable tour of the literary and pictorial arts.

Contents:

Cover

Title

Copyright

Contents

Acknowledgments

List of Illustrations

I. ""Ut Pictura Poesis

II. Time Unveils Truth

III. Sameness of Structure in a Variety of Media

IV. Harmony and the Serpentine Line

V. The Curve and the Shell

VI. Telescopic, Microscopic, and Photoscopic Structure

VII. Spatial and Temporal Interpenetration

Notes

Index

Notes:

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ISBN:

9780691252186

0691252181

9780691252193

069125219X

OCLC:

1397571096