Neoplatonic Aesthetics: Music, Literature, & the Visual Arts

By John Shannon Hendrix and Liana Girolami Cheney

Neoplatonic Aesthetics: Music, Literature, and the Visual Arts explores the idea of a Neoplatonic aesthetic, a philosophy of the arts based on the writings of Plato and the Neoplatonists - principally Plotinus, Proclus, Pseudo-Dionysius, Nicolas Cusanus, and Marsilio Ficino - and more contemporary philosophers - Stephen MacKenna, Iris Murdoch, Denman Ross, Jacques Derrida, and Hans Georg Gadamer. This book examines the artistic production of figures such as Gioseffe Zarlino, Fra Angelico, Leon Battista Alberti, Sandro Botticelli, Michelangelo, and Giorgio Vasari, and it formulates theoretical approaches to contemporary production based in the Neoplatonic philosophies.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0820471119
• ISBN13: 9780820471112
• Release Date: January 1
• Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.89 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"