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Author Moffitt, John F. (John Francis), 1940-2008.

Title Inspiration : Bacchus and the cultural history of a creation myth / by John F. Moffitt.

Publication Info. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2005.

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 383 pages) : illustrations.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Philosophy of history and culture, 0922-6001 ; v. 22
Philosophy of history and culture ; v. 22. 0922-6001
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 357-375) and index.
Summary "The purpose of this book is to reveal the antique pedigree of a now commonplace term, Inspiration, an essential creation-myth now propelling notions of self-expression in modern art-making. Knowledge of the ancient sources of such supposedly modernist fixations will make a significant contribution to historical-cultural thinking, particularly by showing in detail the facts of an unrecognized evolutionary continuity. In order to personify Inspiration, this study initially focuses upon Michelangelo's Bacchus of 1496, so revealing now-forgotten meanings once typically to be attached in a generic way to any Bacchus. Then it demonstrates how these Dionysiac concepts arose in ancient Greece. Later developments - particularly from the Middle Ages through the Renaissance - are traced here for the first time. Due to further modifications by Friedrich Nietzsche, Dionysiac expressionism eventually became a staple of modern art theory and practice."--BOOK JACKET. Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
Contents Dedication & Epigraphs; List of Illustrations; Introduction: A Personification of "Inspiration"; Chapter 1: The Modern Condition of "Inspiration"; Chapter 2: Michelangelo's Bacchus as a Historical Metaphor; Chapter 3: The Classical Sources of "Inspiration"; Chapter 4: Post-Classical and Christian "Inspiration"; Chapter 5: The Neoplatonic Bacchus of the Renaissance; Chapter 6: The Emblematic Bacchus and "Inspired" Art-Making; Chapter 7: Post-Renaissance "Inspiration" from the Enlightenment to the Romantics; Chapter 8: A Dionysus Reborn for the Symbolist Era.
Chapter 9: Dionysiac Ecstasy and Modernist Art-WorshipChapter 10: Surrealist Dionysian Myth and Gestural Performance Art; Chapter 11: The Inspired Shaman-Artist: The Case of Joseph Beuys; Chapter 12: Something Like a Post-Modernist Finale; Illustrations; Bibliography; Index.
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Subject Dionysus (Greek deity)
Dionysus (Greek deity)
Dionysus, Greek deity.
Bacchus.
Bacchus.
Inspiration -- History.
Inspiration.
History.
Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.) -- History.
Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Other Form: Print version: Moffitt, John F. (John Francis), 1940- Inspiration. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2005 (DLC) 2005042020
ISBN 9004142797 (alkaline paper)
9789004142794 (alkaline paper)
9781429452762 (electronic book)
1429452765 (electronic book)
9781433706851 (electronic book)
1433706857 (electronic book)