Inspiration : Bacchus and the cultural history of a creation myth /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
2005.
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| Series: | Philosophy of history and culture,
v. 22 |
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| Online Access: | http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=173794 |
Table of 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.