Aristotle, in his Poetics, states that comedy originated in phallic songs and that, like tragedy, it began in improvisation. As part of the Hertfordshire Year of Culture, this group exhibition focuses on works by six artists living and working in Hertfordshire. This poem, like many poems of place, is in other words, communicates intersubjectively; it is simultaneously about somewhere particular and has a widely shared resonance.

It developed in response to a set of handmade towels found at the artist’s ancestral family home, which has been handed down through generations, and subtly altered over time with lace trims, fabric patches and crocheted pieces. Natural and organic overlaying of structure and form – marks, scrapings, symbols, colour and collage building on the panels. Ecopoetics thus contributes to the dissident project of resistance to dominant cultural modes of thinking. Aristotle in his Poetics insisted that literature should reflect nature—that even highly idealized characters should possess recognizable human qualities—and that what was probable took precedence over what was merely possible. It follows, I think, that good poetry of place sees significance in things and landscapes to which most of us would pay scant attention, and embodies the imagination needed to draw unexpected associations that amplify this significance.She is an installation artist whose practice is concerned with finding ‘ready-made art’ within the everyday landscape.

of dramatic theory, the fragmentary Poetics of Aristotle (384–322 bce), chiefly reflecting his views on Greek tragedy and his favourite dramatist, Sophocles, is still relevant to an understanding of the elements of drama.Curran’s exhibited work gestures towards these entanglements between the vegetal landscape, the domestic interior, the decorative surface and the gendering of the spaces of production and presentation. These new objets d’art, vaguely familiar and recognisable at first glance, are displayed within a gallery environment, removing them from their humble domestic beginnings and practical motivations into reworked delicate small-scale contemporary textile sculptures. on a misunderstanding of Aristotle’s Poetics, in which the philosopher attempted to give a critical definition of the nature of tragedy. D. form the vanishing mediator for the post-1970's literary interpretation of Sappho within Anglo-American classics.

The explicit presentation of fragmentation and reified conceptions of both human subjectivity and natural forces in this chapter relates to the distinctive problems identified by German critical philosophy and its attempt to establish a rational system based on ‘things in themselves’, which developed the idea ‘that thought could only grasp what it itself had created’.Bachelard implicitly urges architects to base their work on the experiences it will engender rather than on abstract rationales that may or may not affect viewers and users of architecture.