Performance and Authenticity in the Arts (Cambridge Studies in Philosophy and the Arts) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0521147433 ISBN 13: 9780521147439

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2010

Synopsis

This book brings together a distinguished group of scholars from music, drama, poetry, performance art, religion, classics and philosophy to investigate the complex and developing interaction between performance and authenticity in the arts. The volume begins with a perspective on traditional understandings of that relation, examining the crucial role of performance in the Poetics, the marriage of art with religion, the experiences of religious and aesthetic authenticity, and modernist conceptions of authenticity. Several essays then consider music as a performative art. The final essays discuss the link of authenticity to sincerity and truth in poetry, explain how performance, as an authentic feature of poetry, embodies a collective effort, and culminate in a discussion of the dark side of performance - its constant susceptibility to inauthenticity. Together the essays suggest how issues of performance and authenticity enter into consideration of a wide range of the arts.

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Book Description

This book brings together a distinguished group of scholars to investigate the complex and developing interaction between performance and authenticity in the arts. Subjects discussed include the experiences of religious and aesthetic authenticity, the performance of music, and the dark side of performance - its constant susceptibility to inauthenticity.

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0521147433
• ISBN 13: 9780521147439
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 286
• Editor: Kemal Salim