Book Description
Hutton considers the ideas of philosophers, poets, and historians to seek outthe roots of fact as mere recollection.
Author : Patrick H. Hutton
Publisher : UPNE
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 13,42 MB
Release : 1993
Category : History
ISBN : 9780874516371
Hutton considers the ideas of philosophers, poets, and historians to seek outthe roots of fact as mere recollection.
Author : Frances A Yates
Publisher : Random House
Page : 474 pages
File Size : 12,27 MB
Release : 2011-10-31
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 1448104130
This unique and brilliant book is a history of human knowledge. Before the invention of printing, a trained memory was of vital importance. Based on a technique of impressing 'places' and 'images' on the mind, the ancient Greeks created an elaborate memory system which in turn was inherited by the Romans and passed into the European tradition, to be revived, in occult form, during the Renaissance. Frances Yates sheds light on Dante’s Divine Comedy, the form of the Shakespearian theatre and the history of ancient architecture; The Art of Memory is an invaluable contribution to aesthetics and psychology, and to the history of philosophy, of science and of literature.
Author : F A Yates
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 445 pages
File Size : 27,73 MB
Release : 2013-10-08
Category : History
ISBN : 1136353615
First Published in 1999. This title is the third volume in the ten-volume set titled the Selected Works of Frances Yates. Greyscale illustrations and figures are included throughout - alongside the related descriptive work where applicable. The art in this volume seeks to memorise through a technique of impressing 'places' and 'images' on memory. It has usually been classed as 'mnemotechnics', which appears an unimportant branch of human activity. However, the author discusses in this title that the manipulation of images in memory must always, to some extent, involve the psyche.
Author : Mary Nooter Roberts
Publisher : Prestel Publishing
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 20,74 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Art
ISBN :
...In conjunction with an exhibition ... presented by the Museum for African Art, New York (2 february - 8 september 1996)
Author : Judith Dupré
Publisher :
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 13,35 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Architecture
ISBN :
From the award-winning, bestselling author of Skyscrapers, Churches, and Bridges comes a stunning visual history that serves as a tribute to classic American landmarks.
Author : Anna Maria Busse Berger
Publisher : University of California Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 48,35 MB
Release : 2019-10-08
Category : Music
ISBN : 0520314271
Winner of the ASCAP Deems Taylor Award and Society of Music Theory's Wallace Berry Award This bold challenge to conventional notions about medieval music disputes the assumption of pure literacy and replaces it with a more complex picture of a world in which literacy and orality interacted. Asking such fundamental questions as how singers managed to memorize such an enormous amount of music and how music composed in the mind rather than in writing affected musical style, Anna Maria Busse Berger explores the impact of the art of memory on the composition and transmission of medieval music. Her fresh, innovative study shows that although writing allowed composers to work out pieces in the mind, it did not make memorization redundant but allowed for new ways to commit material to memory. Since some of the polyphonic music from the twelfth century and later was written down, scholars have long assumed that it was all composed and transmitted in written form. Our understanding of medieval music has been profoundly shaped by German philologists from the beginning of the last century who approached medieval music as if it were no different from music of the nineteenth century. But Medieval Music and the Art of Memory deftly demonstrates that the fact that a piece was written down does not necessarily mean that it was conceived and transmitted in writing. Busse Berger's new model, one that emphasizes the interplay of literate and oral composition and transmission, deepens and enriches current understandings of medieval music and opens the field for fresh interpretations.
Author : James E. Young
Publisher : Public History in Historical P
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 19,99 MB
Release : 2018-04-11
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781625343611
Introduction. The memorial's vernacular arc between Berlin's Denkmal and New York City's 9/11 Memorial -- The stages of memory at Ground Zero: the National 9/11 Memorial process -- Daniel Libeskind and the houses of Jewish memory: what is Jewish architecture? -- Regarding the pain of women: gender and the arts of holocaust memory -- The terrible beauty of Nazi aesthetics -- Looking into the mirrors of evil: Nazi imagery in contemporary art at the Jewish Museum in New York -- The contemporary arts of memory in the works of Esther Shalev-Gerz, Miroslaw Balka, Tobi Kahn, and Komar and Melamid -- Utøya and Norway's July 22 memorial: the memory of political terror.
Author : Paolo Rossi
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 28,23 MB
Release : 2000-12-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0226728269
The mnemonic arts and the idea of a universal language that would capture the essence of all things were originally associated with cryptology, mysticism, and other occult practices. And it is commonly held that these enigmatic efforts were abandoned with the development of formal logic in the seventeenth century and the beginning of the modern era. In his distinguished book, Logic and the Art of Memory Italian philosopher and historian Paolo Rossi argues that this view is belied by an examination of the history of the idea of a universal language. Based on comprehensive analyses of original texts, Rossi traces the development of this idea from late medieval thinkers such as Ramon Lull through Bruno, Bacon, Descartes, and finally Leibniz in the seventeenth century. The search for a symbolic mode of communication that would be intelligible to everyone was not a mere vestige of magical thinking and occult sciences, but a fundamental component of Renaissance and Enlightenment thought. Seen from this perspective, modern science and combinatorial logic represent not a break from the past but rather its full maturity. Available for the first time in English, this book (originally titled Clavis Universalis) remains one of the most important contributions to the history of ideas ever written. In addition to his eagerly anticipated translation, Steven Clucas offers a substantial introduction that places this book in the context of other recent works on this fascinating subject. A rich history and valuable sourcebook, Logic and the Art of Memory documents an essential chapter in the development of human reason.
Author : Jewish Museum (New York, N.Y.)
Publisher : Prestel Publishing
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 42,86 MB
Release : 1994
Category : History
ISBN :
We have chosen to investigate the reasons why memorials have been built, to look at whose memory is being honored, and to examine the responses to these memorials. The creation of an exhibition and the production of this book presented the opportunity for an analytic perspective. In the process, we have neither created another memorial nor have we solely explored the field of Holocaust art. Rather, we have attempted to reveal the nature of the creative process through the discussion of specific examples of a number of memorials, and we have tried to understand their meaning and the reaction to them in the many places where they exist. - Preface.
Author : Kirk Savage
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 21,78 MB
Release : 2016-01-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 0300214685
"Proceedings of the symposium "The Civil War in Art and Memory," organized by the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, National Gallery of Art, and sponsored by the Arthur Vining Davis Foundations. The symposium was held November 8-9, 2013, in Washington."