Etiqueta: bas jan ader

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Semiotics of passions in CaixaForum Barcelona

Darwin considered that letting out one’s emotions was something inappropriate for «civilized» men. Instead, crying was proper for weak personalities, that is, women with a hysterical tendency, senile old men and children, as well as «primitive» people. But, in spite of his andro and Eurocentric blindness, Darwin study of the phylogenetic transmission of behaviors and expressions influenced a thinker who would revolutionize the way of reading images and approaching the history of art, Aby Warburg. […]

bas jan ader - too sad caixaforum - le bastart

Semiótica de las pasiones en CaixaForum Barcelona

Darwin consideraba que exteriorizar las emociones era algo impropio de los hombres “civilizados”, siendo el llanto identificativo de personalidades débiles, esto es, mujeres con tendencia histérica, niños y ancianos seniles, amén de los pueblos “primitivos”. Pero, curiosamente, a pesar de su obcecación andro y eurocéntrica, con su estudio de la transmisión filogenética de conductas y expresiones Darwin influyó a un pensador que habría de revolucionar el modo de leer las imágenes y abordar la historia […]

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Check to the macho

Maybe the first artist who broke away from the archetype of virile man was Bas Jan Ader, when in early seventies introduced in a gallery pleas and sentences of melodrama as please do not leave me; when filmed himself crying uncontrollably (I’m too sad to tell you), arranging vases of flowers or delighting in front of a sunset. Although his intention was not to undermine the segregation of roles but to parody the image of […]