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- Title
De la visión y el espanto: el tacto suspendido y la experiencia ante el límite.
- Authors
Torres Sánchez, Rayiv David
- Abstract
In the painting of bogotan painter Epifanio Garay (1849-1903), "The woman of the Levite", fascination and horror come into scene. The act helps developing a dialogue with the suggesting argument of Pascal Quignard when he said that for Romans "sex was linked to the terror". From this premise, the following pages are proposed dialogue with all what the ancient foreshadowed the ban primarily corpse: "do not touch". However, will be that everything is played at the time, on the stage of the painting, touch is suspended and the ban is put on hold. The look of horror, the tautological look, the eyes of ecstasy, are some of the channels of entry of this article to discover what lies behind a scene where the positions are not stable and the eyes is discontinuous. The Roman taste for "beautiful death", or, what Georges Bataille called "nostalgia for death", draws for us a paradigm with respect to the suspicion of a loop, not just among the fascination, beauty, death and eroticism, but also prescription of the images that preserve for himself the unrepresentable.
- Publication
Laocoonte, 2017, Vol 4, p232
- ISSN
2386-8449
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.7203/laocoonte.0.4.11068