Introduction: hybridity as an inescapable condition of the arts
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https://doi.org/10.34629/rcdmt.vol.2.n.1.pp1-15Keywords:
Hybridity, Art forms, Mediums, Intermediality, Media fusionAbstract
The introductory essay to the special issue of the journal RHINOCERVS - Cinema, Dance, Music, Theater (June 2025), titled "Intermedial Connections: Impurity in the Arts", explains the rationale behind the theme of artistic hybridity from two seemingly opposite perspectives, those of art forms and mediums, that, nevertheless, conflate in the concept and practice of Intermediality.
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