How far can we go?: pain, excess and the obscene
Auteur :
Mazzocut-Mis, Maddalena
Éditeur :
Mazzocut-Mis, Maddalena
ISBN :
9781443836432
Date de publication :
1 avr. 2012
Dimensions :
21,2 x 14,8 cm
Poids :
86 g
Format :
With dust jacket
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
Grande Bretagne
The public does not desire horror, yet enjoys it in art and suffers it in life. When we deal with the monstrous marriage of the abject and the sublime, the consequent thrill of enjoyment is never appeased, always problematic, often unresolved and finally borders on physiological if not pathological narcissism.