Sublime isterico, estremismo tragico, posthuman, massimalismo: su alcune declinazioni contemporanee

• Main Author: Massimo Fusillo
• Format: Article
• Language: deu
• Published: Università degli Studi di Torino 2016-06-01
• Series: CoSMO
• Online Access: https://www.ojs.unito.it/index.php/COSMO/article/view/1362

Starting from a discussion of the controversial notion of postmodern sublime, the paper deals with some contemporary declinations and transformations of this thorny category: the camp sublime, which can be compared with Jameson’s hysterical sublime or with Žižek's trash sublime; the total work of art as utopian fusion of artistic genres and existential experiences, especially in its posthuman development; the tragic extremism, which questions the limits of representation; and finally the maximalism, which aims at gaining a totalizing epic fresco. The theoretical discussion of these movements is linked with a focus on some significant artists: Anselm Kiefer, Lars von Trier, Matthew Barney, Sarah Kane, Don DeLillo, David Forster Wallace.