Art and time

356 Pages·2007·1.548 MB·English

by  Jan Lloyd Jones, Paul Campbell, Peter Wylie

ART AND TIME

ART AND TIME
Edited by
Jan Lloyd Jones
Paul Campbell
Peter Wylie
Australian Scholarly Publishing

In memory of
Iain Wright
(1944–2006)
Professor of English
at The Australian National University and
Life Fellow of Queens’ College, Cambridge
© Jan Lloyd Jones, Paul Campbell & Peter Wylie 2007
First published 2007
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CONTENTS
Acknowledgements ix
Preface x
Introduction
Art, Time and Metamorphosis, Derek Allan 1
Philosophy
Time in Philosophy and Art, Simon Haines 13
Art, Eternity, Aevum, Time, Sixto J. Castro 31
Hermeneutics, Historicity, and Poetry as Theological Revelation
in Dante’s Divine Comedy, William Franke 39
Dynamic Sensation: Bergson, Futurism and the
Exteriorization of Time in the Plastic Arts, Paul Atkinson 57
Literature
Proust’s Artists and Anachronisms, James Grieve 75
New Historicism, Hamlet and Time, Duncan Driver 97
A Diary of the Young Man as an Artist, Stephen McLaren 114
The Operation of Time in Tennessee Williams’
The Glass Menagerie, Geoffrey Borny 131
Time’s Wallet: The Poetics of Time: An Anthology, Ralph Elliott 145
Fantasy and Life-Writing
Tolkien and Time: The Fantastic Art of Consolation,
Endurance, Escape, Alison Searle 158
Paradoxes and Hypodoxes of Time Travel, Peter Eldridge-Smith 172
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Art and Time
Retrieving the Past, Transforming the Future: Time and Art
in Autobiographies of Childhood and Incarceration,
Susan Tridgell 190
Time, Inertia and the Medical Cyborg: Jean-Dominique Bauby’s
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, Bjorn Nansen 207
Architecture and Painting
Elegy and Politics in Islamic Attitudes to Architecture,
Michael Greenhalgh 224
Angels in the Architecture: Augustine, Art and Time,
Stephen Frith 240
New Ideas of Wonder: Haptic Time in Organic Architecture,
Andrew Macklin 256
“À toutes les heures, par tous les temps”: Impressionist
Landscapes and Capturing Time, Emilie Sitzia 273
Music
Time’s Music, Albert Mayr 285
Dance and Time in Fifteenth-Century Italy, Jennifer Nevile 299
Music and the Experience of Timelessness, Brian Luke 314
Editors and Contributors 333
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Acknowledgements
The editors gratefully acknowledge the support of the Australian
National University through the Publications Committee, the Faculty
of Arts, and the School of Humanities. Thanks are also due to Derek
Allan, Amanda Crawford, Scott Fuller, Julian Lamb, Paul Miller, and
Susan Tridgell for their generous assistance in this project. Many of
the papers in this volume were first presented at the Art and Time
symposium held in the School of Humanities at the Australian
National University in November 2005.
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Preface
In late 2005, the School of Humanities at the Australian National
University convened a conference on the topic of “Art and Time”.
The conference was interdisciplinary in approach, inviting speakers
from a range of fields in the humanities. It attracted a wide array
of contributors from universities throughout Australia as well as
from the United States, Asia, and Europe. This volume presents a
selection of papers from the conference, together with a number of
papers invited from other scholars with an interest in the topic. The
papers are divided into five sections: Philosophy, Literature, Fantasy
and Life-Writing, Architecture and Painting, and Music.
The Philosophy section begins with Simon Haines, who, in a
sweeping overview of what philosophers from Heraclitus to Huw Price
have had to say on the subject of time, compares flow theories with
block theories, A series with B series time, chronos (measurable time)
with kairos (timeliness, seasonableness), and subjective and objective
notions of time. He then contrasts these insights offered by the
philosophers with those of the poets, covering a similarly impressive
expanse of time. Also in this section, Sixto J. Castro, working with
ideas from Aristotle, Aquinas and Gadamer, compares notions of time
and eternity and their relation to our understanding of the work of
art; William Franke uses Gadamerian hermeneutics to understand the
representation of suprahistorical truth in Dante’s La Divina Commedia;
and Paul Atkinson takes a Bergsonian perspective on the Italian
Futurist painters’ attempts to capture the dynamism of the moment
and make time visible in art.
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