- Titel: What fragments are to desire, elements are to design
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Enthalten in:
Word & image; 31(2015), 2, Seite 119
- Erschienen: 2015
- ISSN: 0266-6286
- Sprache: Englisch
- Schlagwörter: desire ; dream ; fragment ; design
- Inhalt: The aim of this study is to show that the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili offers a striking insight into the limited nature of human understanding and artistic invention: that imperfect knowledge is less a failure than a condition of genuine creativity. The fragmented images of dreams, no less partial than powerful, are the Hypnerotomachia's evidence of this understanding. Both the written text and its images show how incomplete views can lead to the creation of new works, and how fragments can provoke imaginings of complete forms. Several other Renaissance texts are adduced to support the argument: Leon Battista Alberti's On the Art of Building, Shakespeare's Midsummer-Night's Dream, Petrarch's Scattered Rhymes, and Flavio Biondo's Italy Illuminated. One of the important buildings of the early Renaissance period is described as an outcome of invention by virtue of remnants, Santa Maria Novella, by Alberti. A harmonic solution was no doubt desired, but the pre-existing conditions with which he had to work prevented a perfectly proportioned outcome. Nevertheless, a particular kind of beauty was achieved. Odds and ends served as the subject matter of the project's development as well as the creative thinking it expressed
- Medientyp: Artikel
- Datenquelle: OLC Kunst und Kunstwissenschaft
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