The enigma of art : on the provenance of artistic creation

In this book, Gino Zaccaria offers a philosophical meditation on the issue of art in light of its originary sense. He shows how this sense can be fully understood provided that our thinking, on the one hand, returns to the ancient Greek world where it must heed the voice and hints of the goddess Athena, and, on the other hand, listens to “artist-thinkers” close to our current epoch, such as Cézanne, van Gogh and Boccioni. Indeed, the path of this meditation has as its guide the well-known sentence by the painter from Aix-en-Provence, which reads: “Je vous dois la vérité en peinture, et je vous la dirai!”. What will finally appear in this way will not be an abstract or historical notion of art, but its enigma; that is to say, the promise of “another initiation” of art itself. Contents Preface Acknowledgements Introduction Lexicon of a Thought-Path towards the Provenance of Art 0.1 Preamble 0.2 Path-Word Elucidations 0.3 List of Other Path-Words 0.4 Path-Word Maps Part 1 Potency’s Art, Salubrity’s Art Chapter 1 The Dynamism of Boccioni The Futurist Foundation of Artwork: Immersion into Potency and Energy 1.1 A Brief Premise 1.2 Universal Dynamism 1.3 The Morpho-Radio-Chromatic Model (Potency-Power, Energy, Space-Time) 1.4 Unacceptability (towards Cézanne and van Gogh) Chapter 2 The Light of Cézanne Errantry into the Sun 2.1 Ardour 2.2 First Step: Solar Awfulness, Light and Flagrance 2.3 Second Step: Colour 2.4 Third Step: The Painting of Verity 2.5 Naturalness of the “Grand Magicien” Chapter 3 The Frugality of van Gogh Errantry into the Mistral, into Salubriousness 3.1 “Le ton local” 3.2 Truth and Absconsion 3.3 Nature, Truth and Art 3.4 Wind 3.5 Salubrity and Frugality Part 2 Athena and the Enigma 1 Sciency for Art Chapter 4 Elucidations of Some Further Path-Words 4.1 Irrefragableness 4.2 Excandescence 4.3 Businessisation 4.4 The Apperceptive Acception of Truth 4.5 Truth, Verity 4.6 The Scope of Being, Truth and Verity Chapter 5 The En-Wording of Art 5.1 The Play 5.2 The Realm of Errantry Chapter 6 Science and Sciency, Art and Errantry 6.1 From Science to Sciency 6.2 Sciency for Art 6.3 Mother-Speech 6.4 Art and History, Geniture and Inition 2 Athena Chapter 7Loci of the Goddess 7.1 The Art of Athena 7.2 The Reigning Goddess 7.3 The Hymn Chapter 8 Eye, Prefulgence, Γλαυκότης 8.1 The Γλαυκῶπις and Παλλάς Tones 8.2 The “Glaucous” Eye-Cast, the “Glaucous” Myrance 8.3 “Glaucousness” and Prefulgence 8.4 The Multiform Γλαυκότης 8.5 The Eye’s Gift Chapter 9 The Salubrious-Divine Myrance 9.1 The Marvel of the Scope of Being 9.2 Excursus. The Γλαυκότης of Leopardi (a Vage Digression into Immensity) 9.3 The Γλαυκότης of the Goddess Chapter 10 Prefulgence, Κόσμος and Salubrity 10.1 Grace and Want (Thinking towards the Κόσμος of Heraclitus) 10.2 The Three Eyes of the Scope of Being Chapter 11 Μῆτις 11.1 The Salubrious Concent 11.2 Elucidation of Μῆτις 11.3 Athenaic (Ubiquity-)Nullibiety Chapter 12 The Heart of Salubriousness 12.1 Athena’s Heart 12.2 Towards the Beënt, towards the Things 12.3 The Bidance of Salubrity and the Greek Deity Chapter 13 Athenaicness and Salubriousness 13.1 Towards the Art of Chastity 13.2 The Atlas Metope Chapter 14 Salubriousness and Art 14.1 Originariness of the Calls 14.2 The Wild Olive 14.3 Vesper 14.4 Which Path? 3 The Enigma Chapter 15 Art and Errantry, Vagancy and Vagisness 15.1 The “Secret of Art” 15.2 The Stele of Schism 15.3 Chastity: Errantry 15.4 The Ultimate Horizon Chapter 16 The Enigma of Art 16.1 Dis-may 16.2 “The Long History” and Geniture Chapter 17 Nay-Say (Un-Wordedness) 17.1 Destiny 17.2 Γλαυκότης, Light, Φύσις 17.3 Φύσις and Salubriousness Chapter 18 The Onset of the Nay-Say 18.1 Spontaneity, Φύσις, Tέχνη 18.2 The Uniqueness of Athena 18.3 Ἀλήθεια Part 3 The Two Arts(a Hint) Chapter 19 Φύσις and Τέχνη Nature and Art 19.1 Φύσις as Assurgency 19.2 Art and Art 19.3 Groundlessness "In his book The Enigma of Art. On the provenance of Artistic Creation Gino Zaccaria offers a philosophical meditation on the issue of art in light of its original sense. The book shows how this sense can be fully understood provided that our thinking, on the one hand, returns to the ancient Greek world where it must heed, in particular, the voice and hints of the goddess Athena, and, on the other hand, listens to "artist-thinkers" close to our current epoch, like Cézanne, Boccioni or van Gogh. What will finally appear will not be an abstract notion of art, but its enigma; that is to say, the promise of a conversion of art itself towards its "other beginning""-- Provided by publisher