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Is There Truth in Art? / Herman Rapaport.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2018]Copyright date: 1996Description: 1 online resource (240 p.) : 3 halftonesContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781501729607
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 111/.85 20
LOC classification:
  • BH301.T77 R36 1997
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. Is There Truth in Art? -- 2. Anton von Webern's "Two Rilke Songs," Op. 8 -- 3. Brushed Path, Slate Line, Stone Circle -- 4. Forces of Gravity -- 5. The Radiant Suspensions of Julien Gracq and Maurice Blanchot -- 6. Beyond Essence: Marguerite Duras's Aurelia Steiner Cycle -- 7. Of the Eye and the Law -- Index
Summary: The question posed by Herman Rapaport, in the title of this book, is intended both seriously and ironically. It is not Rapaport's purpose to debate whether or not truth resides in art. The title points rather to his belief that truth needs to be reconceptualized in the light of continuing efforts to deconstruct and to discredit the notion of truthfulness in art.The question of art's truthfulness persists because truth in art is neither an entity or content that has been injected into the work, nor a transcendental concept or ground that exists outside it. Moreover, when used in relation to art, Rapaport says, truth means something quite different from conventional definitions of the term. Indeed, a central question that informs the book is the return of truth at the far side of its deconstruction.Is There Truth in Art? includes chapters on atonal music, environmental art, modern German and French poetry, contemporary French fiction, experimental French film, and a photograph taken by the National Socialists during the destruction of the Warsaw ghetto. Determining how truth can be said to occur in these examples, Rapaport maintains, requires analysis in each instance. He draws chiefly upon the thinkers who have radically reformulated questions about truth—Nietzsche, Heidegger, Derrida, and Levinas—and uses their writings to explore the works under analysis.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. Is There Truth in Art? -- 2. Anton von Webern's "Two Rilke Songs," Op. 8 -- 3. Brushed Path, Slate Line, Stone Circle -- 4. Forces of Gravity -- 5. The Radiant Suspensions of Julien Gracq and Maurice Blanchot -- 6. Beyond Essence: Marguerite Duras's Aurelia Steiner Cycle -- 7. Of the Eye and the Law -- Index

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The question posed by Herman Rapaport, in the title of this book, is intended both seriously and ironically. It is not Rapaport's purpose to debate whether or not truth resides in art. The title points rather to his belief that truth needs to be reconceptualized in the light of continuing efforts to deconstruct and to discredit the notion of truthfulness in art.The question of art's truthfulness persists because truth in art is neither an entity or content that has been injected into the work, nor a transcendental concept or ground that exists outside it. Moreover, when used in relation to art, Rapaport says, truth means something quite different from conventional definitions of the term. Indeed, a central question that informs the book is the return of truth at the far side of its deconstruction.Is There Truth in Art? includes chapters on atonal music, environmental art, modern German and French poetry, contemporary French fiction, experimental French film, and a photograph taken by the National Socialists during the destruction of the Warsaw ghetto. Determining how truth can be said to occur in these examples, Rapaport maintains, requires analysis in each instance. He draws chiefly upon the thinkers who have radically reformulated questions about truth—Nietzsche, Heidegger, Derrida, and Levinas—and uses their writings to explore the works under analysis.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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