Year: 2024
Type: article
Abstract: The essay explores areas of suspension and emptiness in the aesthetic experience, navigating between the perspective of Mikel Dufrenne and Jean-François Lyotard. Starting with the gentle reconciliation described by Dufrenne, in which the complete reconciliation between subject and world is assumed, we will move on to what breaks this unity. The uncanny, the disorientation, which art presupposes and which a reconciliatory perspective does not presuppose, are for Lyotard those “dead zones” in which vital energies circulate freely. In this passage between rêverie and the uncanny, an attempt will be made to show how art can exist in a state of tension that places the subject before his perceptive and interpretative limits.
Author: Federico Mariani
Institution: Presses Universitaires de France
Language: English
Subfield: Visual Arts and Performing Arts
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4405997240