The Open WorkMore than twenty years after its original appearance in Italian, The Open Work remains significant for its powerful concept of "openness"--the artist's decision to leave arrangements of some constituents of a work to the public or to chance--and for its striking anticipation of two major themes of contemporary literary theory: the element of multiplicity and plurality in art, and the insistence on literary response as an interactive process between reader and text. The questions Umberto Eco raises, and the answers he suggests, are intertwined in the continuing debate on literature, art, and culture in general. |
Contents
The Poetics of the Open Work I | 1 |
Analysis of Poetic Language | 24 |
Openness Information Communication | 44 |
The Open Work in the Visual Arts | 84 |
Television and Aesthetics | 105 |
Form as Social Commitment | 123 |
Form and Interpretation in Luigi Pareysons Aesthetics | 158 |