Thursday, April 11, 2013
Dionysian, Art, Communication
In Birth of Tragedy, Nietzsche shows that all Art is genetically Dionysian, i. e. that dithyrambic Music inspires Dancing, which releases all the symbolic powers, including the Apollinian ones. At the same, that demonstration implies that all Art is categorially Dionysian, as well. For, to characterize anything as 'symbolic' is to classify it as a 'language', and, hence, as a medium of Communication. Now, Communication unites discrete individuals, and, so, is a Dionysian activity in Nietzsche's system. Thus, if all the Arts are symbolic, they are all media of Communication, and, hence, are all species of Dionysian activity.
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Hi, I am from Australia.
ReplyDeletePlease find a completely different Understanding of art and culture via these references - the artist as Orpheus
www.aboutadidam.org/readings/art_is_love/index.html
www.adidaupclose.org/Art_and_Photography/rebirth_of_sacred_art.html
Related references.
www.consciousnessitself.org
http://spiralledlight.wordpress.com/2010/08/24/4068
www.beezone.com/whiteandorangeproject/index.html
www.beezone.com/news.html
Thanks for the references.
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