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Victor Burgin's Parzival in Leuven: Reflections on the Uncinematic
Contributor(s): Symons, Stéphane (Editor), Van Gelder, Hilde (Editor)
ISBN: 9462700990     ISBN-13: 9789462700994
Publisher: Leuven University Press
OUR PRICE:   $54.45  
Product Type: Paperback
Published: October 2017
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BISAC Categories:
- Art | Film & Video
- Art | European
- Art | Individual Artists - Monographs
Series: Lieven Gevaert
Physical Information: 0.48" H x 6.78" W x 8.88" (1.13 lbs) 160 pages
 
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In commemoration of the destruction of the University Library of Leuven (Belgium) in August 1914, the projection work Parzival, created by Victor Burgin (UK, 1941) in 2013, was installed within the rebuilt Library. The installation uniquely marked the 100th anniversary of the beginning of World War I, which left its profound traces on both the consciousness and physiognomy of the city of Leuven. Burgin's reflection on Richard Wagner's opera Parsifal (premiere 1882) combines the artist's computer modelled images (a bombed out street, a sunset meadow, a Venetian palazzo, ) with citations from Roberto Rossellini's Germany Year Zero (1948) and references to works by Milan Kundera, W.G. Sebald and Philip K. Dick.

This publication provides an in-depth analysis of Parzival, a work that is inspired by the period of seven months that Wagner spent in Venice (1858-1859). Burgin's Parzival raises questions about some of the most fundamental elements in Wagner's operatic work: the longing for a savior, the complex connection between violence and catharsis, and the presentiment that destruction awaits humanity in the future (G tterd mmerung). In an associative manner, Parzival brings together various artistic and political features to confront the romantic ideal of the ruin with the horrors that might result from such a myth.

In addition, this book contains a reprint of Michel Foucault's essay The Imagination of the Nineteenth Century (1980).

Contributors

Geert Bouckaert (KU Leuven), Victor Burgin (University of California, University of London, University of Southampton), Alexander Streitberger (Universite catholique de Louvain), Stephane Symons (KU Leuven), Hilde Van Gelder (KU Leuven)

Contributor Bio(s): Symons, Stephane: - Stéphane Symons is an associate professor in aesthetics and philosophy of culture at the Institute of Philosophy at the KU Leuven.Van Gelder, Hilde: - Hilde Van Gelder is professor of modern and contemporary art history at the KU Leuven and co-director of the Lieven Gevaert Research Centre for Photography, Art and Visual Culture.