The search for the "infinite" and the phenomenon of incompleteness in S. M. Eisenstein’s work
Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: Sergei Eisenstein spent almost his entire conscious life in search of the "infinite". By this concept we mean a sociocultural approach to the boundaries of perception of works and products of art and world art culture precisely in the context of the work of an outstanding director, teacher, thinker and artist. Infinity is undoubtedly not a quantitative value; infinity is a principled refusal of boundaries and, at the same time, in a certain sense, a boundary of boundlessness in the limitedness of boundaries. For Eisenstein, as for Aristotle, there is no dogma of the permanent; his artistic world is fluid and ambivalent. Until the very last moment of his physical existence, he was in search of truths, constants, points of meaning in the halo of the development of his own personality through the prism of civilization-culture-art. The arrays of unfinished and unpublished works of S.M. Eisenstein amaze the imagination with their scale and numerous interpretations. Following the famous researchers of the great director and thinker V. Podoroga, R. Yurenev, N. Kleiman, O. Bulgakova, V. Zabrodin, Vyach. Ivanov, the author of this article tries to unravel the keys and ciphers of Eisenstein’s "infinite".
Author: Vladimir Grigorievich Haunin
Language: English
Topic: Cinema History and Criticism
Subfield: Visual Arts and Performing Arts
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W4412376227