Pollock, G (2017) Staging Subjectivity: Love and Loneliness in the Scene of Painting with Charlotte Salomon and Edvard Munch. Text Matters, 7 (7). pp. 114-144. ISSN 2083-2931
Abstract
This paper proposes a conversation between Charlotte Salomon (1917–43) and Edvard Munch that is premised on a reading of Charlotte Salomon’s monumental project of 784 paintings forming a single work Leben? oder Theater? (1941–42) as itself a reading of potentialities for painting, as a staging of subjectivity in the work of Edvard Munch, notably in his assembling paintings to form the Frieze of Life. Drawing on both Mieke Bal’s critical concept of “preposterous history” and my own project of “the virtual feminist museum” as a framework for tracing resonances that are never influences or descent in conventional art historical terms, this paper traces creative links between the serial paintings of these two artists across the shared thematic of loneliness and psychological extremity mediated by the legacy of Friedrich Nietzsche.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2017 Griselda Pollock, published by De Gruyter Open. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License. BY-NC-ND 3.0 |
Keywords: | Edvard Munch; Charlotte Salomon; subjectivity; painting; loneliness; Friedrich Nietzsche |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Cultures (Leeds) > Fine Art, History of Art & Cultural Studies (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 03 Jul 2017 13:49 |
Last Modified: | 23 Jun 2023 22:31 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | De Gruyter Open |
Identification Number: | 10.1515/texmat-2017-0007 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:118474 |