Slow reading on art: works, artists and the act of looking.
3 articles
TagAlbert Camus
Essays & Criticism ·
Art does not console; it confronts. In the light of Albert Camus’s philosophy of the absurd, we look at the absurdity of existence in the works of Louise Bourgeois, Francis Alÿs and Bruce Nauman.
Art & Seeing ·
“In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer.” From Camus to Kahlo, we explore the aesthetics of being reborn from the places where we broke.
Existence & Spirituality ·
“One must imagine Sisyphus happy.” We explore Camus’s absurd hero and the aesthetics of persistence through examples from art history, from Titian to Stuck.
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