Capriccio: VirtuositÃ¤t und Improvisation

Gabriele Brandstetter

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VirtuositÃ¤t und Improvisation

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Pages:: 159â174

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.30965/9783846769829_009

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Starting from the question of the non-virtuoso as found in the art of âmendingâ (with a view to Louise Bourgeois), the article reflects on the virtuoso as a borderline figure in the ârisk zone of the âimpossibleââ, as a figure on the edge between admiration and potential ridicule. At the same time, it explores the virtuosity of failure and the non-virtuoso performance that presents the staged quotidian and thus exposes it to chance. Hegel, Adorno, Balzac, Walser, Benjamin and Hofmannsthal demonstrate the literary and aesthetic fascination with the lightness of the virtuoso, while twentieth-century and contemporary performance art illustrates the play with the non-virtuoso â perhaps as a virtuosity of crisis.

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VirtuositÃ¤t in der Krise

Techniken der Selbstbehauptung im 17. Jahrhundert

Series:Â Poesis, Volume: 4

E-Book ISBN:: 9783846769829

Publisher:: Brill | Fink

Print Publication Date:: 29 Oct 2025

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