Neoplatonic Aesthetics: Music, Literature and the Visual Arts

Neoplatonic Aesthetics: Music, Literature and the Visual Arts

Neoplatonism
Aesthetics -- History

"Neoplatonic Aesthetics: Music, Literature, and the Visual Arts explores the idea of a Neoplatonic aesthetic, a philosophy of the arts based on the writings of Plato and the Neoplatonists - principally Plotinus, Proclus, Pseudo-Dionysius, Nicolas Cusanus, and Marsilio Ficino - and more contemporary philosophers - Stephen MacKenna, Iris Murdoch, Denman Ross, Jacques Derrida, and Hans Georg Gadamer. This book examines the artistic production of figures such as Gioseffe Zarlino, Fra Angelico, Leon Battista Alberti, Sandro Botticelli, Michelangelo, and Giorgio Vasari, and it formulates theoretical approaches to contemporary production based in the Neoplatonic philosophies."--Jacket.

New York : Peter Lang

edited by Liana de Girolami Cheney and John Hendrix

Introduction / John Hendrix, Liana De Girolami Cheney -- Music -- One Instrument (Ney) and Two Philosophical Traditions / Turker Eroglu, Haci Mustafa Acikoz -- The Art of Flute-Playing in Proclus, the Neoplatonist / Georgia Markea, Christos Terezis -- The Neoplatonic Approach of Proclus to Music in Relation to Politics and Metaphysics / Kalomoira Polychronopoulou, Christos Terezis -- Grammar, Rhetoric and Music: Zarlino's Theories and Pierre Boulez: "L'Artisanat Furieux" from Le Marteau Sans Maitre / Lisa Friend -- Literature -- Plato's Heritage in the Arts: Form as Essence / Albert Anderson -- " ... if one had the power to look at the god in oneself"--Metaphysics as Hermeneutics in the Aesthetics of Plotinus / Jonathan Scott Lee -- Translator as Commentator: Stephen MacKenna's Views on Spiritual Transcendence / Patrick Quinn -- Moral Life and the Experience of Beauty: Iris Murdoch's Pilgrimage from Fantasy into Reality / Sante Maletta -- Visual Arts -- A Humanist Reading of Fra Angelico's Frescoes at San Marco / Allie Terry -- The Neoplatonic Aesthetics of Leon Battista Alberti / John Hendrix -- Plotinus, Marsilio Ficino, and Renaissance Art / Aphrodite Alexandrakis -- David's Other: Creation by the Gaze / Michael Grillo -- Michelangelo's Artistic Captivity as Mirrored in His Neoplatonic Captives / Tammy Smithers -- Giorgio Vasari's Neoplatonic Cosmology: The Planets / Liana De Girolami Cheney -- Platonic Thought in American Design Theory c. 1900 / Marie Frank.

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