Sprezzatura: Concealing the Effort of Art from Aristotle to Duchamp

ISBN-13: 9780231175821 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 192 str.

Paolo D'Angelo

Opis

Paolo D'Angelo traces the history of concealing art-which Italian calls sprezzatura-from ancient rhetoric to our own times. Finding the precept that art must be hidden from cosmetics to interior design, politics to poetry, the English garden to shabby chic, Sprezzatura is an erudite and surprising tour of aesthetics, philosophy, and art history.

Recenzje

A brilliant and lively essay on a fundamental aesthetic concept. Broad-ranging both philosophically and historically, the author treats the wit and paradox of explaining a rhetorical and performative action of speech or art-making that must conceal its artfulness for the sake of beauty, eloquence, and grace. Lydia Goehr, Columbia University

O autorze

Paolo D'Angelo is professor of aesthetics at Roma Tre University. He is the author of a number of books on aesthetics and philosophy.