PSi Lexicon

Tag: Protopapa

cry

cry κραυγή In contemporary performance, the cry is more linked to a liberation of and a connection to the unconscious and less to the lament of ancient tragedy (oimoge). If we look at it from the perspective of Aristotle, it would probably be the scream of katharsis and not so much the one of pity […]

current, movement (in art)

current, movement (in art) ρεύμα According to the seventh – and last – definition given in the New Hellenic Lexicon of Emmanouil Kriaras et al, the noun ‘current’ could mean ‘a tendency within a literary or artistic movement’. A similar meaning is given to the word ‘movement’. However, a current is different from a movement […]