A Writer's Journal on Philosophy and Art

The characteristic aim of modern art, to be unacceptable to its audience, can be regarded as the inverse statement of the unacceptability to the artist of the very presence of an audience—in the familiar sense, an assembly of voyeuristic spectators. At least since Nietzsche observed in The Birth of Tragedy that an audience of spectators as we know it, those present whom the actors ignore, was unknown to the Greeks, a good deal of contemporary art seems moved by the desire to eliminate the audience from art, an enterprise that often presents itself as an attempt to eliminate “art” altogether. (In favor of “life”?)
—Susan Sontag

Woe to him who seeks to please rather than to appal!
—Herman Melville

There is a sense in which a poem is as silent as a statue.
—Northrop Frye

Current Issue

Volume IV, Issue 1, April 2009

This issue of Hyperion is dedicated to the memories of Harold Pinter and James Purdy.

    Visual Art

    The Picturesque Element in American Pop Art: or the Media in Disguise

    by Marcella Tarozzi-Goldsmith

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    The Crisis of Cognition: On Memory and Perception in Chris Marker’s The Hollow Men

    Chris Marker, “Quelle heure est-elle?”

    by Rainer J. Hanshe

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    Dance

    Mathinna

    reviewed by Nicholas Birns

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    Theater

    Layers of the Past: Parsifal at Bayreuth 2008

    by Daniela Zimmermann

    In English

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    In German

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    Our Two Cents Worth: An Opera of Work, Timeliness, Renewal

    The Two-Cents Opera

    reviewed by Nicholas Birns

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    Literature

    Abandoned on the Mountains of the Heart

    by Katja Brunkhorst

    introduction by Rainer J. Hanshe

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    Posthumous Papers of a Living Author

    written by Robert Musil

    reviewed by Cecile Rossant

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    The World at a Glance

    written by Edward Casey

    reviewed by David Kleinberg-Levin

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