Death Aesthetization in Contemporary Artistic Practices


Autoria(s): Lousa, Teresa; Faculdade de Belas Artes da Universidade de Lisboa
Contribuinte(s)

Abjection, Death, Aesthetization, Contemporary Art, Corpse

Data(s)

28/04/2016

Resumo

Starting from the famous and enigmatic quotation of the Aristotle’s Poetics, who argues that the human has a natural desire and pleasure to see corpses if mediated by art, is intended to show the relationship between the attraction for the horror and some contemporary art practices surrounding the depiction of death, particularly with regard to the ultimate use of the human corpse as an artistic resource. Avoiding any kind of ethical approach or questioning of the limits of the artistic production, is meant to highlight the phenomenon through the examples brought out by the work of some contemporary artists such as Andy Warhol, Eric Fischl, Damien Hirst, Von Hagens, Andres Serrano, Joel-Peter Witkin and Teresa Margolles: From those who use the corpse in and turn it in something aesthetically pleasant, to others who turn human corpses in sculptures of scientific value, and further other kind of artists who assume the morbid and dramatic life of the corpse in their art production as something structural.

Partiendo de la famosa y enigmática cita de la Poética de Aristóteles que sostiene que el ser humano tiene un deseo natural y placer de ver cadáveres cuando mediada por el arte, se pretende mostrar la relación entre la atracción por el horror y algunas prácticas artísticas contemporáneas en torno a la representación de la muerte, en particular con respecto a la radical utilización del cadáver humano como un recurso artístico. Evitando cualquier tipo de enfoque ético o cuestionamiento de los límites de la producción artística, tenemos la intención de resaltar el fenómeno a través de los ejemplos presentados a cabo de la obra de algunos artistas contemporáneos, como Andy Warhol, Eric Fischl, Damien Hirst, Von Hagens, Andres Serrano, Joel-Peter Witkin y Teresa Margolles: partiendo de los que utilizan el cadáver y lo convierten en algo estéticamente agradable, a otros que transforman cadáveres humanos en esculturas de valor científico y, además, otro tipo de artistas que asumen la vida mórbida y dramática del cadáver en su producción artística como algo estructural.

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http://revistas.ucm.es/index.php/ARIS/article/view/50047

10.5209/rev_ARIS.2016.v28.n2.50047

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Arte, Individuo y Sociedad; Vol 28, No 2 (2016); 371-385

Palavras-Chave #Estética #Abjection; Death; Aesthetization; Contemporary Art; Corpse #Abyección; Muerte; Estetización; Arte Contemporáneo; Cadáver
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