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- Title
EL SUPLICIO: ¿UNA ESCENIFICACIÓN NECESARIA EN NUESTROS DÍAS POSMODERNOS?
- Authors
Gontovnik, Mónica
- Abstract
This essay proposes a reflection provoked by an artistic event: a series of paintings motivated by the photographs taken by North American soldiers of the prisoners abused in Abu Ghraib in 2004. The artistic even was presented by the Colombian painter Fernando Botero. This artistic event allows us to analyze a human need that seemed to be overcome in modernity: to make punishment a public scene. The thesis presented by philosopher Michael Foucault in his book: Discipline and Punish serves as a frame of reference. What at present we denominate the World Wide Web allows humanity to communicate in an accelerated manner and thus go into the public arena in a matter of seconds in a way that is contrary to reflection and rational thinking.
- Subjects
PAINTING from photographs; MILITARY personnel in art; PUNISHMENT; BOTERO, Fernando, 1932-; DISCIPLINE &; Punish (Book); FOUCAULT, Michel, 1926-1984; WORLD Wide Web
- Publication
Eidos, 2007, Issue 6, p62
- ISSN
1692-8857
- Publication type
Article