Modernes pietà

This article proposes to study a singular and paradoxical community of figures identified in three films created in the political and revolutionary context of the sixties : in Children Out of Tune (P. Garrel, 1964), Acéphale (P. Deval, 1968), and Gods of the Plague (R. W. Fassbinder, 1970), survives...

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Main Author: Aurel Rotival
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Language:fra
Published: Centre d´Histoire et Théorie des Arts 2018-12-01
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/imagesrevues/5726
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description This article proposes to study a singular and paradoxical community of figures identified in three films created in the political and revolutionary context of the sixties : in Children Out of Tune (P. Garrel, 1964), Acéphale (P. Deval, 1968), and Gods of the Plague (R. W. Fassbinder, 1970), survives the figurative pattern, inherited from christian painting, of a pietà. The first step is to consider the dialectical potential of this exemplary pathetic gesture, and to understand how it can also serve as a starting point for the expression of a critical and political position. The question then arises of the period of an anthropological crisis, especially described by P. P. Pasolini and E. De Martino, which led to the reinvestment of these religious symbols and the role they thus play as medium of a memorial safeguard and a spiritual shelter. Finally, it is a question of considering the necessary political dimension that the religious pathos may bear when it reappears at times when revolution, emancipation and salvation must be thought together.
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spelling doaj-art-a3a340af49c24c3e88e31f3f62cd18c12024-12-09T15:50:52ZfraCentre d´Histoire et Théorie des ArtsImages Re-Vues1778-38012018-12-011510.4000/imagesrevues.5726Modernes pietàAurel RotivalThis article proposes to study a singular and paradoxical community of figures identified in three films created in the political and revolutionary context of the sixties : in Children Out of Tune (P. Garrel, 1964), Acéphale (P. Deval, 1968), and Gods of the Plague (R. W. Fassbinder, 1970), survives the figurative pattern, inherited from christian painting, of a pietà. The first step is to consider the dialectical potential of this exemplary pathetic gesture, and to understand how it can also serve as a starting point for the expression of a critical and political position. The question then arises of the period of an anthropological crisis, especially described by P. P. Pasolini and E. De Martino, which led to the reinvestment of these religious symbols and the role they thus play as medium of a memorial safeguard and a spiritual shelter. Finally, it is a question of considering the necessary political dimension that the religious pathos may bear when it reappears at times when revolution, emancipation and salvation must be thought together.https://journals.openedition.org/imagesrevues/5726ChristianityGarrelDevalFassbinderPietàSurvival
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title Modernes pietà
title_full Modernes pietà
title_fullStr Modernes pietà
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title_short Modernes pietà
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topic Christianity
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Deval
Fassbinder
Pietà
Survival
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