Before the beginning, during the middle, after the end : (Record no. 26231)

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LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CONTROL NUMBER
LC control number 2014466315
ISBN
International Standard Book Number 9781625645999
ISBN
International Standard Book Number 9781625645999
DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Call number 113
MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL AUTHOR
Authors Krukowski, Lucian,
Dates 1929-
TITLE STATEMENT
Title Before the beginning, during the middle, after the end :
Subtitle cosmology, art, and other stories
Statement of responsibility, etc. Lucian Krukowski
PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT)
Place of publication Eugene, Or. :
Publisher Pickwick Publications,
Date c2014.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent vii, 239 p. ;
Size 23 cm.
SUMMARY
Summary The divisions that mark my subject are three. The first is that point where the world begins--where it appears from out of the mystery of non-being. The second lies somewhere between its progeny and its future--the times between beginnings and ends where we, the beneficiaries of our being-here, come together to sing a celebration of the wonder that it happened at all, and then intone the fear of its ending. The third division is a speculation on ends--our own and the ending of the world. I use these divisions to locate a something that comes from nothing onto a historical tradition that imposes a value on the progression of that something, and so requires a judgment on all that has passed. I first discuss these through religious attempts to invest life and history with purpose--for they form the major explanatory traditions of Western culture and are a thematic source of much of its greatest art. I continue with an art-critical approach where themes of process and purpose are located in artworks through their stylistic histories and ambitions. I indicate how present art, when open to reconstitute such themes, could change the nature of today's efforts to give art polemical purposes, and so provide new reasons for its making. I conclude with some stories, unevenly biographical, partly fictional, which I offer as parables for the developed themes and their transformations. This last aim is to elucidate a view of art as providing specific symbols for a cosmology of beginning, living, and ending.
SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical Heading Cosmology
General Philosophy
SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical Heading Aesthetics
ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS
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26/01/2017 113 KR BE T0051214 25.31 26/01/2017 REGULAR   Dewey Decimal Classification       University of Wollongong in Dubai University of Wollongong in Dubai Main Collection 08/04/2015 AMAUS