Divine music in archaic and classical Greek art : seeing the songs of the gods /

Soumis par Joseph Hafner le 22 Avril, 2025 - 21:30

Type de publication:

Book

Auteurs:

Laferrière, Carolyn,

Source:

Cambridge University Press,, Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY, United States, p.xx, 282 pages : (2024)

Numéro d'appel:

ML85

Autre numéro:

20384262

Mots-clés:

Art, Greek, Dieux grecs dans l'art., fast, Gods, Greek, in art, Gods, Greek, in art., History and criticism., Music in art, Music in art., Music, Greek and Roman, Musique dans l'art., Themes, motives, Themes, motives.

Notes:

Outgrowth of the author's thesis (doctoral)--Yale University, 2017, under the title: Complex sensations of divine music in archaic and classical Greek art.Introduction : seeing divine music -- Sculpting divine music -- Pouring performances -- Painting with music -- Divine music in context -- Responding to divine music -- Conclusion : experiencing divine music."This book examines Athenian vase-paintings and reliefs that depict the gods most frequently shown as musicians, showing how these images could visually suggest the sounds of the music the gods made. It brings together formal analysis together with literary and archaeological evidence to reconstruct the musical culture of Athens"--"In this volume, Carolyn M. Laferrière examines Athenian vase-paintings and votive reliefs depicting the gods most frequently shown as musicians to reconstruct how images could suggest the sounds of the music created by the gods. Incorporating insights from recent work in sensory studies, she considers formal analysis together with literary and archaeological evidence to explore the musical culture of Athens. Laferrière argues that these images could visually suggest the sounds of the gods' music. This representational strategy, whereby sight and sound are blurred, conveys the 'unhearable' nature of their music: because it cannot physically be heard, it falls to the human imagination to provide its sounds and awaken viewers' multisensory engagement with the images. Moreover, when situated within their likely original contexts, the objects establish a network of interaction between the viewer, the visualized music, and the landscape all of which determined how divine music was depicted, perceived, and reciprocated. Laferrière demonstrates that participation in the gods' musical performances offered worshippers a multisensory experience of divine presence." -- Provided by publisherIncludes bibliographical references and index.