FRANCK WEDEKIND
Questionnaire
Quality preferred in a man's temperament, energy
Quality preferably in a woman: intelligence
My idea of happiness: to be used according to his abilities
Main ability: inability to lie
Main: to tell the truth
Science favorite: the science of religions
Trend Art: Michelangelo, Titian Rubens, Makart
Company Preference: carefree and gay
insurmountable antipathy: the piano played badly
favorite writer: Schiller
favorite composers: Beethoven
Favorite book: Casanova
favorite instrument: the string quartet
favorite Heroes Poetry: Richard III
favorite Hero in History: Alexander the Great
Favorite color: red
Favorite food: fish, poultry, green salad
Favorite drink: a little wine country
Favorite sport: making theater
Favorite game: playing with the world
How do you live? not too bad
Your temperament melancholy
Your main trait: stubbornness, I hope
Currency: 2 X 2 = 4
Jacques Lacan
Preface to The Awakening of Spring, Gallimard collection
Thus a playwright in 1891 addresses the matter of what is for boys to have sex with girls, they did not think scoring without the awakening of their dreams. Remarkable
be staged as such: it is to demonstrate not be satisfied for all, to admit that if it misses, it's for everyone.
Suffice to say that is unheard of.
ARTHUR KUTSCHER
Wedekind, Leben und Werk
The dramaturgy of Wedekind is an dramatic lyrical tendencies, which do not meet the cutting tables which suffice to themselves, concentrates of life, which can contain multiple scenes, but also only a few sentences, when it comes to evoking an atmosphere particularly intense. Thus the moments are more or less autonomous, and we see no real common thread: the only stages of development, perhaps a mosaic. There is no action in the usual sense. Cohesion born of increasing intensity, a stepwise progression of events, organization charts with their effect of parallel and contrast, or even those that do no movement is important. What gives the form its necessity.
Henry Darger
Drawings
The old man died in 1973 at age 81 at the hospice. Diver in the kitchen of a hospital, he had lived 40 years in a single room in a boarding house, without heirs, he bequeathed all his property to his landlord. He lost his mother to 4 years, nicknamed "Crazy" from his childhood, he was placed in 8-year pension, then 12, caught masturbating in public, in an institution for mentally disabled: there seems to have suffered the worst abuse, and he fled to 17 years old when his father died. Very devout, considered a bit "cheesy" by his neighbors, he had only one friend, also marginal to it, and lived in seclusion in his room, his application of adopting a little girl was refused. He was also obsessed with the weather (as Kosek). After his death, his landlord entered his room and, amid a jumble indescribable, discovered thousands of pages and hundreds of watercolors and illustrations, his work, The Story of Vivian Girls, episode what is known as the Realms of the Unreal, of the violent war-glandéco Angelinnian, caused by the Child Slave Rebellion. He started writing in 1910, traumatized by the tragedy happened to a little girl kidnapped and raped (and having lost the photo of this little girl, he kept religiously), and it illustrates from 1918.
Darger shows us scenes of shocking brutality, but where the characters are angelic little girls in idyllic settings, always the same face without expression, without individuality. His paintings are merely apocalyptic violence, abuse, strangulation, evisceration. On one of them (detail above), worthy of a Massacre of the Innocents, the blood is flowing, girls are hanged, disemboweled, stabbed, crucified (one upside down), choked by lassos; throne amidst an anatomical drawing of viscera taken from a medical encyclopedia. The main theme is of course the struggle between good and evil, Christianity and paganism, girls pure and terrible enemy, is the loss of the golden age, and efforts to find him by martyrdom, by the accession to holiness. All drawings are covered in soft colors, soft; Darger, drawing badly, glue or decal patterns illustrated catalogs or childish collected in bins. It ignores the prospect, his story in a single plate panorama. He invents a geography, place names, flags, uniforms inspired by the independence war or civil war. A drawing of cave shelter to unfathomable depths, full of thundering sounds and smells sweet, is invaded by black ink devouring the whole page.
We will discuss in turn Goya, Callot, Norman Rockwell Chapman brothers or Glen Baxter, but it should be called Sade to the rescue.
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