Arts of Incompletion: Fragments in Words and Music

by and Axel Englund, Edited by Walter Bernhart, University of Graz

Incompletion is an essential condition of cultural history, and particularly the idea of the fragment became a central element of Romantic art. Through its resistance to classicist ideals it continued being of high relevance to the various strands of modernist and contemporary aesthetics. The fourteen essays in this volume, based on the 2017 Stockholm conference of the International Association for Word and Music Studies (WMA), for the first time...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9004467114
• ISBN13: 9789004467118
• Release Date: July 2021
• Publisher: Brill
• Length: 314 Pages