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Aesthetics of Improvisation: Translated from Italian by Robert T. Valgenti

Object category:
Elektronische Ressource
Person/Institution:
Bertinetto, Alessandro
Publisher:
BRILL
Place of publication:
Boston
Date:
2022
Extent, illustration, format:
1 online resource (179 pages)
Language:
Englisch
Abstract:
Intro -- Table of Contents -- Preface to the English Edition -- (Improvising an) Introduction -- Chapter 1: The Birth of Art from the Spirit of Improvisation -- 1.1 Historical Background -- 1.2 Action and Improvisation -- 1.3 Reactive Improvisation and Deliberate Improvisation -- 1.4 Improvisation in Action: Between Creativity and Habits -- 1.5 Improvising (according to) the Rule of Art -- Chapter 2: The Grammar of Contingency -- 2.1 The Sense of Improvisation -- 2.2 Responding to Contingency -- 2.3 Ad hoc Aesthetic Categories -- 2.3.1 Emergence -- 2.3.2 Presence -- 2.3.3 Curiosity -- 2.3.4 Authenticity -- 2.4 The Aesthetic (In)comprehension of Improvisation -- 2.4.1 Empathy -- 2.4.2 Witz -- 2.4.3 An Unforeseen Paradox -- 2.4.4 Prejudices -- Chapter 3: The Arts of Improvisation -- 3.1 The Arts at Work: Between Performance and Product -- 3.2 Practicing Spontaneity Together: Improvisation in the Performing Arts -- 3.2.1 The Roles of Improvisation -- 3.2.2 The Dialectic of Authorship -- 3.2.3 The Time and Sense of the Performance -- 3.3 Music, Dance, Theater, and Poetry -- 3.4 The Installation, Intermediality, and the Digital Revolution -- 3.5 Improvisation as Product: Painting, Sculpture, and Literature -- 3.6 Cinema, Photography … and the Readymade -- 3.7 Architecture, Design, Land Art -- Chapter 4: An Aesthetics of Success: Improvisation as a Philosophy of Art -- 4.1 Imperfection? -- 4.2 No Identification without Evaluation without Transformation -- 4.3 Creativity ex improviso -- 4.4 Creativity at Work -- 4.5 Performative Normativity -- 4.5.1 The Performance of Aesthetic Judgment -- 4.5.2 The Work of Art -- 4.5.3 The 'Enactment' of Aesthetic Judgment -- 4.6 Waiting for an Agreement -- 4.7 It Makes Sense. A Wonderful Eutopia -- Index of Names.
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