Asthetik und Gewalt: Physische Gewalt zwischen kunstlerischer Darstellung und theoretischer Reflexion

Asthetik und Gewalt: Physische Gewalt zwischen kunstlerischer Darstellung und theoretischer Reflexion
Format
Hardback
Publisher
V&r Unipress
Country
DE
Published
19 June 2013
Pages
186
ISBN
9783847101109

Asthetik und Gewalt: Physische Gewalt zwischen kunstlerischer Darstellung und theoretischer Reflexion

The relationship of art to physical violence in European cultural history has always been intricate. Aestheticised violence in the fine arts, on the stage or in literature has often been discredited, but at the same time - not least because of the contiguity of violence and sexuality - it is received with pleasure.In a survey of literary examples from antiquity, the Renaissance and modernity, the author begins by elucidating the development in Europe of the troubled relationship between aesthetics and violence. This relationship is then examined from a psychoanaltical angle in two exemplary studies of music. The dual perspective continues with the analyses of contemporary cultural producers (a theatre director, a photographic artist and a film director) together with those of cultural scientists (from theatre studies, art history, and film and media studies). In this way the actual process of aesthetisizing violence on the one hand and theoretical reflections on it on the other become clear.

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