Goggio Lecture; Companionship of/in the Arts: Books of Hours, Monteverdi’s music, and the Taviani’s Kàos

Companionship of/in the Arts: Books of Hours, Monteverdi’s music, and the Taviani’s Kàos

What do the arts add to one another? How does the mixing of media bring us paradoxically closer to a work that previously existed only as words on a page? - even as it may take us further from what has been typically prized in literary criticism as the divining of an author’s ‘original intent’?  What happens to that ‘intent’, as elusive as it may be, when it is joined by the intent of others: artists, composers, film directors? My examples of companionship in and among various arts will be drawn from a particular context: that of leave-takings. As we move from medieval to modern venues, we’ll explore how the intermingling of artistic forms enables profoundly collective ways of engaging with others’ grief – and our own.

All times stated in Eastern time.