THE AESTHETICS OF CAPRICE: IN THE CIRCLE OF VISUALISATION (Estetyka kaprysu. W kregu wizualizacji)

• Authors: Popiel Magdalena
• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

Caprice or capriccio is analysed as an aesthetic category, in a perspective of non-linear continuity of cultural phenomena (the concepts of Warburg, Panofsky and Didi-Huberman are evoked). Indicated are directions of caprice visualisation among which figurative and landscape representations are dominant. The history of caprice as a painting genre illustrates the intriguing complexity of aesthetic awareness extending to extremely differing representations, stylistic modes and meanings. Iconic as well as literary narrations of caprice - while accompanying the modern 'aesthetic of lightness' from the Renaissance to surrealists, from Vasari to Simmel - highlight the movement of metamorphosis, the will to transgress, the frenzy of freedom and the magic of coincidence.

Keywords

EN

CAPRICE; FIGURATIVE REPRESENTATIONS; LANDSCAPE REPRESENTATIONS; LITERARY NARRATIONS; VISUALISATION

Discipline

• PHILOLOGY_&_LINGUISTICS: PHILOLOGY & LINGUISTICS

• Publisher: Institute of Literary Research, Polish Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Teksty Drugie (Second Texts)
• Year: 2009
• Issue: 1-2
• Pages: 94-104
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Popiel Magdalena

• Magdalena Popiel, Uniwersytet Jagiellonski, Katedra Antropologii LIteratury i Badan Kulturowych, ul. Grodzka 64, 31-044 Kraków, Poland

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

09PLAAAA067013