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- Title
Vanitas-Stillleben in der Videokunst Aktuelle Perspektiven eines barocken Motivs und ihre Gestaltung von Zeitlichkeit.
- Authors
Benthien, Claudia; Berger, Julia Catherine
- Abstract
In contemporary literature, theatre, and visual arts, one can observe an adaptation of traditional motifs, in particular the early modern trope of ›vanitas‹. Video art, specifically, has an affinity for the painting genre of still life which, within the context of the vanitas trope, is associated with moral, religious, and philosophical questions, and allows for the integration of divergent temporal modes. In this article, we look at both early modern concepts of time and recent theoretical approaches to examine how film and video techniques fashion time artistically, extending the temporality of static still lifes beyond their visual frame and resemanticizing, defamiliarizing, and even negating symbols of vanitas. We demonstrate how these symbols are employed in the contemporary visual arts to reflect upon transience and death, but also investigate the potential of new technologies to give aesthetic shape to the passing of time. This article presents a first systematization of vanitas still lifes in video art and provides insight into these multifaceted negotiations of a classic genre.
- Subjects
VIDEO art; ART; TEMPORAL integration; FRAMES (Social sciences); AESTHETICS; STILL life painting
- Publication
Zeitschrift für Ästhetik und Allgemeine Kunstwissenschaft (ZÄK), 2021, Vol 66, Issue 1, p39
- ISSN
0044-2186
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.28937/9783787340682_2