Contemporanea

¿Cuál es la relación entre el arte y las emociones? ¿Qué extraño poder ejerce sobre los sentimientos? El autor recoge las tres principales teorías sobre el arte como modo de comunicar, al hilo de la historia, y añade su propia explicación, "la que descubre el artista al estudiar en sí mismo su propia capacidad de respuesta", la que expresa sus propios sentimientos. Se añade una honda reflexión del autor sobre el relativismo cultural en las ciencias del espíritu, y las notas de una conversación personal en torno a la génesis de la publicación de su gran obra, Historia del arte.

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Vértigo, de Hitchcock, es quizá la más perfecta combinación de romanticismo y suspense de la historia del cine. Film de culto que se nutre de la pintura, la mitología clásica y diversas fuentes literarias, ha dejado huella en cineastas como William Wyler, Polanski o Brian De Palma.

INSIGHTS INTO CHANGES OF MENTALITY AND PHILOSOPHY. HOW DO THE OBJECTS IN A STILL LIFE REFLECT THE CUSTOMS, IDEAS AND ASPIRATIONS OF THE TIME? THIS IS ONE OF THE QUESTIONS WHICH NORBERT SCHNEIDER ASKS IN THIS BOOK. THE PERIOD BETWEEN THE LATE MIDDLE AGES AND THE 17TH CENTURY WAS WITHOUT DOUBT THE HEYDAY OF THE STILL LIFE. IT IS AN ART FORM WHICH GIVES US VALUABLE INSIGHTS INTO CHANGES OF MENTALITY AND PHILOSOPHY AS WELL AS PEOPLE'S NOTIONS OF DEATH. STILL LIFES CHART THE HISTORY OF SCIENTIFIC DISCOVERIES AND THEIR ACCEPTANCE AS WELL AS THE GRADUAL REPLACEMENT OF THE MEDIAEVAL CONCEPT OF THE...