Človek, ktorý vynachádza sám seba: americkosť a ostrovnosť v dielach Jonasa Mekasa a Beatrice Gibsonovej
A Man Who Invents Himself: Americanness and Insularity in the Works of Jonas Mekas and Beatrice Gibson
Author(s): Christelle NicolasSubject(s): Geography, Regional studies, Lithuanian Literature, Film / Cinema / Cinematography, Sociology of Art, American Literature
Published by: Slovenská akadémie vied - Centrum vied o umení
Keywords: Geography; Spatiality; Americanness’; Insularity; Transcendentalism; Gilles Deleuze; Jonas Mekas; Béatrice Gibson; Adolfo Bioy Casares; Henri David Thoreau; Roosevelt Island; Cinema; Contemporary Art;
Summary/Abstract: Two artworks concerning exile and New York, world city and archipelago: Walden from Jonas Mekas (1969) with reference to Henri David Thoreau (1854); and A Necessary Music from Beatrice Gibson (2009) according to The Invention of Morel from Adolfo Bioy Casares (1940). Are these artworks a recreation by the separation achieved by the desert island as described and conceptualized by Gilles Deleuze? But here, the desert island is also a new world, the possible space to new human being, to humans who are inventing themself by the geographical distance from the Ancients, from Europe and Africa: America.
Journal: ARS
- Issue Year: 53/2020
- Issue No: 1
- Page Range: 82-89
- Page Count: 8
- Language: Slovak