Narrativity How Visual Arts, Cinema and Literature Are Telling the World Today

Traditional narrative structure hit a wall--or rather it hit the glass of a kaleidoscope--in the 1990s, when art began to function as a kind of editing table on which daily reality could be remixed and recreated. Narrativity considers the importance of new narrative modes, looking not only at the visual arts but at contemporary literature and film and the mutual influences between them. It reflects on the codes through which narrative is represented (and on those symbols' capacity to generate meaning in new contexts), on recent emphasis on controlling the duration of a work and increased perception of works as "events" before they are monuments or mere testimonies. And, not least, it considers the artistic games and gambles allowed and forced by all this change.Buck, Paul is the author of 'Narrativity How Visual Arts, Cinema and Literature Are Telling the World Today', published 2007 under ISBN 9782914563307 and ISBN 2914563302.