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Enchantment : On Charisma and the Sublime in the Arts of the West / C. Stephen Jaeger.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Haney Foundation SeriesPublisher: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2012]Copyright date: ©2012Description: 1 online resource (440 p.) : 52 illusContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780812243291
  • 9780812206524
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 700.1 23
LOC classification:
  • NX620 .J34 2012eb
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Introduction -- 1. Charisma and Art -- 2. Living Art and Its Surrogates: The Genesis of Charismatic Art -- 3. Odysseus Rising: The Homeric World -- 4. Icon and Relic -- 5. Charismatic Culture and Its Media: Gothic Sculpture and Medieval Humanism -- 6. Romance and Adventure -- 7. Albrecht Durer's Self-Portrait (1500): The Face and Its Contents -- 8. Book Burning at Don Quixote's -- 9. Goethe's Faust and the Limits of the Imagination -- 10. The Statue Changes Rilke's Life -- 11. Grand Illusions: Classic American Cinema -- 12. Lost Illusions: American Neorealism and Hitchcock's Vertigo -- 13. Woody Allen: Allan Felix's Glasses and Cecilia's Smile -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Index -- Acknowledgments
Summary: What is the force in art, C. Stephen Jaeger asks, that can enter our consciousness, inspire admiration or imitation, and carry a reader or viewer from the world as it is to a world more sublime? We have long recognized the power of individuals to lead or enchant by the force of personal charisma-and indeed, in his award-winning Envy of Angels, Jaeger himself brilliantly parsed the ability of charismatic teachers to shape the world of medieval learning. In Enchantment, he turns his attention to a sweeping and multifaceted exploration of the charisma not of individuals but of art.For Jaeger, the charisma of the visual arts, literature, and film functions by creating an exalted semblance of life, a realm of beauty, sublime emotions, heroic motives and deeds, godlike bodies and actions, and superhuman abilities, so as to dazzle the humbled spectator and lift him or her up into the place so represented. Charismatic art makes us want to live in the higher world that it depicts, to behave like its heroes and heroines, and to think and act according to their values. It temporarily weakens individual will and rational critical thought. It brings us into a state of enchantment.Ranging widely across periods and genres, Enchantment investigates the charismatic effect of an ancient statue of Apollo on the poet Rilke, of the painter Dürer's self-portrayal as a figure of Christ-like magnificence, of a numinous Odysseus washed ashore on Phaeacia, and of the black-and-white projection of Fred Astaire dancing across the Depression-era movie screen. From the tattoos on the face of a Maori tribesman to the haunting visage of Charlotte Rampling in a film by Woody Allen, Jaeger's extraordinary book explores the dichotomies of reality and illusion, life and art that are fundamental to both cultic and aesthetic experience.
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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Introduction -- 1. Charisma and Art -- 2. Living Art and Its Surrogates: The Genesis of Charismatic Art -- 3. Odysseus Rising: The Homeric World -- 4. Icon and Relic -- 5. Charismatic Culture and Its Media: Gothic Sculpture and Medieval Humanism -- 6. Romance and Adventure -- 7. Albrecht Durer's Self-Portrait (1500): The Face and Its Contents -- 8. Book Burning at Don Quixote's -- 9. Goethe's Faust and the Limits of the Imagination -- 10. The Statue Changes Rilke's Life -- 11. Grand Illusions: Classic American Cinema -- 12. Lost Illusions: American Neorealism and Hitchcock's Vertigo -- 13. Woody Allen: Allan Felix's Glasses and Cecilia's Smile -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Index -- Acknowledgments

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What is the force in art, C. Stephen Jaeger asks, that can enter our consciousness, inspire admiration or imitation, and carry a reader or viewer from the world as it is to a world more sublime? We have long recognized the power of individuals to lead or enchant by the force of personal charisma-and indeed, in his award-winning Envy of Angels, Jaeger himself brilliantly parsed the ability of charismatic teachers to shape the world of medieval learning. In Enchantment, he turns his attention to a sweeping and multifaceted exploration of the charisma not of individuals but of art.For Jaeger, the charisma of the visual arts, literature, and film functions by creating an exalted semblance of life, a realm of beauty, sublime emotions, heroic motives and deeds, godlike bodies and actions, and superhuman abilities, so as to dazzle the humbled spectator and lift him or her up into the place so represented. Charismatic art makes us want to live in the higher world that it depicts, to behave like its heroes and heroines, and to think and act according to their values. It temporarily weakens individual will and rational critical thought. It brings us into a state of enchantment.Ranging widely across periods and genres, Enchantment investigates the charismatic effect of an ancient statue of Apollo on the poet Rilke, of the painter Dürer's self-portrayal as a figure of Christ-like magnificence, of a numinous Odysseus washed ashore on Phaeacia, and of the black-and-white projection of Fred Astaire dancing across the Depression-era movie screen. From the tattoos on the face of a Maori tribesman to the haunting visage of Charlotte Rampling in a film by Woody Allen, Jaeger's extraordinary book explores the dichotomies of reality and illusion, life and art that are fundamental to both cultic and aesthetic experience.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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