TY - BOOK ID - 78108525 TI - Panaesthetics PY - 2014 SN - 0300187645 9780300187649 1306475031 9781306475037 9780300186628 0300186622 PB - New Haven Yale University Press DB - UniCat KW - Arts. KW - Arts, Fine KW - Arts, Occidental KW - Arts, Western KW - Fine arts KW - Humanities KW - Arts, Primitive UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78108525 AB - While comparative literature is a well-recognized field of study, the notion of comparative arts remains unfamiliar to many. In this fascinating book, Daniel Albright addresses the fundamental question of comparative arts: Are there many different arts, or is there one art which takes different forms? He considers various artistic media, especially literature, music, and painting, to discover which aspects of each medium are unique and which can be translated from one to another. Can a poem turn into a symphony, or a symphony into a painting? Albright explores how different media interact, as in a drama, when speech, stage décor, and music are co-present, or in a musical composition that employs the collage method of the visual arts. Tracing arguments and questions about the relations among the arts from Aristotle Æsá Poetics to the present day, he illuminates the understudied discipline of comparative arts and urges new attention to its riches. ER -