„O szaleństwie rozprawiania o obrazach” – rozmowa o sztuce jako paradygmat dyskursu artystycznego w powieści Friederike Mayröcker brütt oder Die seufzenden Gärten
„The madness of talking about pictures” – the art talk as a paradigm of artist discourse in Friederike Mayröcker’s novel brütt or The Sighing Gardens

Author(s): Beate Sommerfeld
Subject(s): Sociology of Art
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego
Keywords: Friederike Mayröcker; visual art; ekphrasis; intermediality; talk about art
Summary/Abstract: The article deals with the intermedial references in the narrative texts by an Austrian writer Friederike Mayröcker. On the example of the novel brutt or The sighing gardens (1998) it is demonstrated that Mayröcker; when speaking about art; refers to the Romantic art theory and in particular to the literary tradition of the Kunstgespräch (discussion of art); as developed by August Wilhelm Schlegel and Georg Büchner. Mayröcker’s art discussions are influenced by poststructuralist thought; which postulates the impossibility to establish a stable relation between sign and meaning. Poststructuralist scepticism also affects the visual arts; which are no longer the site of truth. The genuine Romantic discussion of art is radicalized in a highly performative language of folly; which can be conveyed as symptomatic for the crisis of meaning.

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