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Our Distance from God - 9780520252134

Un libro in lingua di Herbert James D. edito da Univ of California Pr, 2008

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In this encounter between reflections on Christian theology and the history of art and music, James D. Herbert explores how specific works of art establish a relation - at times distant, at times proximate, in conflict or in accord - between the divine and the earthbound audiences for whom the art was created. Herbert formulates a compelling new approach to the representation, figuration, and manipulation of "distance" in art and music as he investigates three kinds of remove: physical displacement between objects, the semiotic fissure between representation and reality, and the ethical gap between practice and ideals. His argument unfolds over five case studies and spans four centuries: the architecture and artworks that glorified Louis XIV at Versailles in the seventeenth century, the interaction of libretto and music in Richard Wagner's Ring of the Nibelung, Claude Monet's enormous and resplendent paintings of water lilies mounted at the Orangerie of Paris in 1927, the inaugural performance in 1962 of Benjamin Britten's War Requiem for the consecration of the new Anglican cathedral at Coventry, and Robert Wilson's recent installation based on the Passion, 14 Stations.

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