UNAS 1106 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: German Expressionism, Sophocles
20 Jan 2017
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Hitler"s artisti(cid:272) se(cid:374)se of the (cid:449)orld is si(cid:373)ilar to trista(cid:374) a(cid:374)d isolde (cid:271)e(cid:272)ause their lo(cid:448)e (cid:272)ould (cid:374)e(cid:448)er exist: aesthetic will only exist in destruction. Images themselves reflect the internal consciousness of the artist during the weimar republic. Prior to the middle ages: philosophy of beauty being an intelligible property of things (good=beautiful, beyond the sensuality due to the intelligibility. After middle ages: experience of art or beauty gets reduced to merely sensual experiences. Move from something pleasing to whether or not it is intelligible. History of art: movement to greater and greater interiority. Something alluring about power and destruction: grandiose designs for self-destruction can be considered beautiful. Greeks knew the horror of human existence: you (cid:272)a(cid:374)"t get arou(cid:374)d sufferi(cid:374)g, oedipus"s (cid:449)eak(cid:374)esses (cid:271)ri(cid:374)g a(cid:271)out his o(cid:449)(cid:374) destru(cid:272)tio(cid:374, sophocles was testing to see whether or not you can maintain your virtue in the midst of. Painters paint about other painters: paint their stories.
