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For the Love of Art

For the Love of Art

Dayan, Peter

Paperback

Series: Selected Essays, Book 10

Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 1781884803
ISBN13: 9781781884805
Publisher: Legenda
Published: Nov 10 2025
Pages: 230
Weight: 0.82
Height: 0.48 Width: 6.69 Depth: 9.61
Language: English

How do we decide what to value as music, or as poetry, or as art? For at least a century, since we were first told that noise might be music, and since Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven, Kurt Schwitters, and Marcel Duchamp began to stick found objects in art galleries, critics have been increasingly suspicious of this question. The essays in this volume show, however, that an indirect but unexpectedly powerful answer is given by the very writers, composers and painters who are generally thought to have turned art into an infinitely problematic category. Art in each medium quietly tells us that it has a hidden source in another medium. Poetry is, in an arcane way, really music, or it is dance, or it is visual; music is (equally arcanely) poetry, or dance, or visual art; and so on. Each art draws its strength from roots that pass through an unknowable space between the arts.

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