Morgan Meis: Drunken Silenus | Taschenbuch

Cover: 9781639820542 | Drunken Silenus | Morgan Meis | Taschenbuch | Paperback | Englisch

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The Drunken Silenus is a book that is as hard to categorize as it is to put down--an enlightening and mesmerizing blend of philosophy, history, and art criticism. Morgan Meis begins simply enough, with a painting by the Baroque master Peter Paul Rubens of the figure from Greek mythology who is mentor to Dionysus, god of wine and excess of every kind. We learn who this obscure, minor god is--why he must attend on the god who dies and must be re-born and educated all over again--and why Rubens depicted him not as a character out of a farce, but as one whose plight evokes pity and compassion. The narrative spirals out from there, taking in the history of Antwerp, bloody seventeenth-century religious wars, tales of Rubens's father's near-execution for sleeping with William of Orange's wife, Nietzsche's Birth of Tragedy and the impossibility of there being any meaning to human life, and the destruction of all civilization by nefarious forces within ourselves. All of this is conveyed in language that crackles with intelligence, wit, and dark humor--a voice that at times sounds a bit tipsy and garrulous, but which ultimately asks us to confront the deepest questions of meaning, purpose, and hope in the face of death and tragedy.

Erscheinungsjahr:	2020
Genre:	Kunst
Rubrik:	Kunst & Musik
Medium:	Taschenbuch
ISBN-13:	9781639820542
ISBN-10:	163982054X
Sprache:	Englisch
Ausstattung / Beilage:	Paperback
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Meis, Morgan
Hersteller:	Slant Books
Maße:	203 x 127 x 10 mm
Von/Mit:	Morgan Meis
Erscheinungsdatum:	09.04.2020
Gewicht:	0,211 kg

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