An Age of Fragmentation. Evidence from Late Antique Literary,
Visual, and Material Cultures

J 2022

An Age of Fragmentation. Evidence from Late Antique Literary, Visual, and Material Cultures

FOLETTI, Ivan and Marie OKÁČOVÁ

Basic information

Original name

An Age of Fragmentation. Evidence from Late Antique Literary, Visual, and Material Cultures

Authors

FOLETTI, Ivan (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution) and Marie OKÁČOVÁ (203 Czech Republic, guarantor, belonging to the institution)

Edition

Convivium. Exchanges and Interactions in the Arts of Medieval Europe, Byzantium, and the Meditteranean, 2022, 2336-3452

Other information

Language

English

Type of outcome

Článek v odborném periodiku

Field of Study

60401 Arts, Art history

Country of publisher

Czech Republic

Confidentiality degree

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

References:

URL

Impact factor

Impact factor: 0.000

RIV identification code

RIV/00216224:14210/22:00127550

Organization unit

Faculty of Arts

UT WoS

001183184200002

Keywords in English

cento; colored marble; cumulative aesthetics; fragmentation; open work; Ravenna; (re)appropriation; spoliation; Sant’Agnese in Rome; Santa Pudenziana; varietas; visual poetry

Abstract

V originále

Certain aesthetic phenomena of late antique (third to seventh centuries) seem to run parallel in literary, visual, and material cultures, attesting to an apparently coherent cultural transformation triggered off by the penetration of Christianity, especially in the Latin West. This study focuses on various manifestations of “cumulative aesthetics” that seem particularly characteristic of the period, such as cultural spoliation, fragmentation patterns, and the poetics of detail. Additional consideration is given to the changing role of audiences and the general movement toward “open artifacts”, as conceived by Umberto Eco. Accepting these practices as significant semantic strategies common in multiple media to reappropriate the past, the “radical” transformation of late antique society emerges as possible only through the continuity of and contiguity with classical heritage. The latter had first to be dismantled into parts before being reassembled into a new, coherent whole within the newly established prism of Christianity. This “unity in diversity” motif seems to be a dominant communication strategy in late antique visual and literary discourse, both encouraging and authorizing aesthetic experiments with the cultural heritage of the past and consistent with official imperial court propaganda.

Links

MUNI/A/1022/2021, interní kód MU

Name: Poutní umění ve středověku jako tělesný zážitek: krajina, poutník a poklad (Acronym: KPP)

Investor: Masaryk University

Citovat

FOLETTI, Ivan and Marie OKÁČOVÁ. An Age of Fragmentation. Evidence from Late Antique Literary, Visual, and Material Cultures. Convivium. Exchanges and Interactions in the Arts of Medieval Europe, Byzantium, and the Meditteranean. 2022, vol. 2022, Supplementum 10, p. 24-47. ISSN 2336-3452.

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