Showing posts with label Forms of Enchantment. Show all posts
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Wednesday, 25 September 2024

Marina Warner Forms of Enchantment Edinburgh book festival 2024

 

Paula Rego war 2003

New Ways of Beauty -   “We fight back with beauty”

 

Warner spoke of her experiences in Paris in the 60s, which offered new realms of experience. Stories and symbols. Intimacy of ideas, of subject matter and ideas. The conformity to an ideal

 

Paula Rego


*Warner discussed several crucial images - 

 

(1)  Paula Rego, War 2003, giving fear a Face

She was influenced by Goya. Hallucinary effects, with pastels.  

 

(2) Louise Bourgeois, Bodies of sense- femme- Conteau 

 

'Positive sew – negative cut': is the knife here about the mind, sometimes hurting us. 


(3)  Joan Jonas, Resonation, 2012 . Digital technologies

 

 


(4)  Hieronymus Bosch  - The Garden of Earthly delights (1490 – 1505)

 Prado Madrid - Icon clashes 


Message that can’t be tolerated and tell stories of the past empire building/ or vandalism. Meanings of building have changed in Paris – Olympic games preserving past and honour past. Statue repurposed.

 

The image is not an inert thing, may not be positive. No fixed meanings.

Dreamworks. A sense of energy, festive. Enquiry.

Relegating art to the elites – that art is not useful, is deplorable.

 

 

**Funding of the arts? - Language, art and buildings are how countries are defined. Neo Liberal policies are only market value thinking. Lord of the rings filming in New Zealand , depending on the film money. 

In Ireland – gerents, and in France, arts to be protected. Cuts to the arts in schools. In drama – read every word and are therefore more connected. 

 

The Art of looking – is a communal experience. Looking at art in books - graphics, illustrations - rewards attentiveness, mediation and slowness settles you.


In Scotland – Burns , Stevenson, Scott – create the bond that unites. 

 

BOOK –  Forms of Enchantment