Quoting Carravaggio, I have just ordered. An art history book I rather
like the sound of.
Coming to poetry from visual arts and with media arts it seems
literature has a very different connection with it's history. This may
be due to my lack of a literature major and hence stuff I haven't read,
but visual and media arts do and quote art history in a very different
way from what I can see... Comments welcome, of course.
Then there is the complicity of visual arts with modernist novels and
poetry over the 20th century which all seems to engage in a discussion
and various interesting quarrels about formalism which is unique to the
20th Century. (The trad idea of formalism which says the ultimate
outcome of art itself is form, seems to come into question, also.)
Anyways, it would be interesting to read more about this. It is also in
some way connected with the breakdown of the categories inherited from
Aristotle and Kant's fine arts aesthetics. The major art history forms,
painting, sculpture, architecture also come into question. This is what
I am looking for to read more on, so any suggestions or pointers
welcomed. Music also, I have a few composer friends but have not thought
much more about the connections here. The intensely dialogic nature of
modern art...
Genette's "The work of art" seems two books of importance, also.
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