ENGA10H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Existence Precedes Essence, Gustave Flaubert, Marcel Duchamp
Document Summary
Gustave flaubert (madame bovary) and charles baudelaire (les fleurs du. Shifting narrative and poetic perspectives expand the way readers think of themselves and others. Evolving role of the artist"s subjective perspective and fleeting impressions. Role of the viewer"s intellectual interpretation and subjective context in art. Provocative rejected from his own society. Robert wiene (director of the cabinet of doctor caligari): Bring inner emotions into the outside, public sphere. Ww1 veterans: how they got where they were (soldiers after ww1) alienated, sets show claustrophobic feeling returning home still felt like being in. With no externally consistent structures and order, what is reality, the trenches (post traumatic stress) other than our experience of reality based on our feelings. Trauma shatter our prism (sense of reality is fractured) The outside, public sphere influences inner emotions. Artists represent what this anxiety feels like (what soldiers felt after ww1) 20th century art calls into question - challenges essentialism.
