Dancing - Thinking (Paperback)

Paperback. An embroidery on a conference by Paul Valery . In 1936, Paul Valery gave a lecture on Dance at the Universite des Annales. He took the opportunity to pick up the reflection thread begun with Introduction a la methode de Leonard de Vinci (1894) a youthful book that he nevertheless cared enough to publish again in 1919 with a new preface. This line of research, opened in 1894, and which aimed to elucidate the processes of intellectual creation, was more or less pursued in an underground way by Valery throughout his life until the Cours de Poetique that he gave at the College de France from the end of 1937 until his death in 1945.He comes to consider the process of artistic creation itself as the true work of art."All the arts are very varied forms of action and are analyzed in terms of action. [.] you can then conceive of the creation of a work of art, a work of painting and sculpture, as a work of art itself. The material object which is shaped under the fingers of the artist being then nothing more than the pretext, the stage accessory, the subject of the ballet." - Paul Valery, Philosophie de la danse - P 38But we will see that Valery's thought leads us to conclusions of an even broader scope. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…