Given, 1° Art 2° Crime: Modernity, Murder and Mass CultureSussex Academic Press, 2007 - 228 sider This exciting new study investigates links between avant-garde art and the aesthetics of crime in order to bridge the gap between high modernism and mass culture, as emblematized by tabloid reports of unsolved crimes. Throughout Jean-Michel Rabate is concerned with two key questions: what is it that we enjoy when we read murder stories? and what has modern art to say about murder? Indeed, Rabate compels us to consider whether art itself is a form of murder. ... The book begins with Marcel Duchamp's fascination for trivia and found objects conjoined with his iconoclasm as an anti-artist. The visual parallels between the naked woman at the centre of his final work, 'Etant Donn s', and a young woman who had been murdered in Los Angeles in January 1947, provides the specific point of departure. Steven Hodel's recent book has thrown new light on what was called the 'Black Dahlia' murder by pointing to one of Duchamp's friends, Man Ray, who, according to Hodel, was the murderer's inspirator. This putative involvement recalls Walter Benjamin's description of Eugene Atget's famous photographs of deserted Paris streets as presenting 'the scene of the crime'. Indeed, this phrase was used as the title for Ralph Roff's 1997 exhibition, which implied that modern art is indissociable from forensic gaze and a detective's outlook, a view first advanced by Edgar Allan Poe who invoked both criminal detection and manuscript studies in his 1846 essay 'Philosophy of Composition'. Arguing that Poe's fanciful account of the genesis of his story 'The Raven' can be superimposed onto his deft solving of murders like that of the 'Rue Morgue' or of Marie Roget, the author goes on to suggest that Poe's aesthetic parallels Thomas De Quincey's contemporaneous essay 'Of Murder Considered as one of the Fine Arts'. |
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... father and his friends , described orgies in which she made love to her father , disclosed that she had just had an abor- tion as a consequence , spoke of the nude photographs of her taken by Man Ray , of the frequent consumption of ...
... father and his friends , described orgies in which she made love to her father , disclosed that she had just had an abor- tion as a consequence , spoke of the nude photographs of her taken by Man Ray , of the frequent consumption of ...
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... father was visiting from Manila with Diana , and the four of them were to have dinner , as Steve wanted to intro- duce his wife to his father ; when they met , he turned ghostly pale and cancelled the dinner under an improvised pretext ...
... father was visiting from Manila with Diana , and the four of them were to have dinner , as Steve wanted to intro- duce his wife to his father ; when they met , he turned ghostly pale and cancelled the dinner under an improvised pretext ...
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... father , with whom he often spent summer vacations on the French Riviera . The father was a rich industrialist who was going to divorce his wife in order to marry his mistress , the famous singer Jeanne Montjovet , but only if he could ...
... father , with whom he often spent summer vacations on the French Riviera . The father was a rich industrialist who was going to divorce his wife in order to marry his mistress , the famous singer Jeanne Montjovet , but only if he could ...
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Interpretation as crime | 13 |
Murder as a readymade | 33 |
Nothing to see | 78 |
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abstract Adorno André Breton Aragon Arcades Arcades Project artist Atget aura avant-garde Bataille Baudelaire beautiful become Bergotte Bergotte's Black Dahlia Blanchot body called Clement Greenberg concept Cornwell crime critical culture Da Vinci Code Dalí death Detective Novel dream Dupin ekphrasis essay esthetic Etant Donnés face fact fait divers fait-divers famous father French Freud George Hodel Hegel hysteria Ibid idea images invented Jack the Ripper Kant La Révolution Surréaliste Lacan later Leonardo literary literature looks Lydie Mallarmé Marcel Duchamp Mary Messac modernism Moses murder mystery narrator Oeuvres Complètes painter painting paranoia Paris patch philosophy photographs Poe's poem portrait Priory of Sion Proust Pyrrho Quincey quoted riddle Sade scene seen sexual Sirens Stirner story Sublime Surrealism Surrealist Thomas de Quincey tion traces trans translated University Press Vermeer Walter Benjamin Walter Sickert Wilde woman writes yellow wall York young