Performance and Authenticity in the Arts

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title Performance and Authenticity in the Arts
Authors and Contributors      Edited by Salim Kemal
Edited by Ivan Gaskell
SeriesCambridge Studies in Philosophy and the Arts
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:286
Dimensions(mm): Height 229,Width 152
Category/GenreThe arts -miscellaneous
Dance and other performing arts
Literary theory
Western philosophy from c 1900 to now
ISBN/Barcode 9780521147439
ClassificationsDewey:790.201
Audience
Professional & Vocational
Illustrations Worked examples or Exercises

Publishing Details

Publisher Cambridge University Press
Imprint Cambridge University Press
Publication Date 24 June 2010
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

This book brings together a distinguished group of scholars from music, drama, poetry, performance art, religion, classics and philosophy to investigate the complex and developing interaction between performance and authenticity in the arts. The volume begins with a perspective on traditional understandings of that relation, examining the crucial role of performance in the Poetics, the marriage of art with religion, the experiences of religious and aesthetic authenticity, and modernist conceptions of authenticity. Several essays then consider music as a performative art. The final essays discuss the link of authenticity to sincerity and truth in poetry, explain how performance, as an authentic feature of poetry, embodies a collective effort, and culminate in a discussion of the dark side of performance - its constant susceptibility to inauthenticity. Together the essays suggest how issues of performance and authenticity enter into consideration of a wide range of the arts.