Incarnation and "Déchirure"; Annunciation and Crucifixion
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This article proposes a typology of paintings in Western art based on the themes of the annunciation and the crucifixion and inspired by the way that Georges Didi-Huberman reflects upon these themes in Devant l’image, linking them to the concepts of incarnation, pan, and déchirure (“tear”). Departing from the term of “incarnation” as Didi-Huberman’s alternative to “representation”, the article distinguishes between paintings of the annunciation type, exploring the preconditions for something to appear, and the crucifixion type, letting the body and its fluids make their imprint on the canvas. The article gives examples of paintings from modern Danish art (Anna Ancher, Vilhelm Hammershøi, Theodor Phillipsen) that do not represent the crucifixion or the annunciation but could still be said to be of either the annunciation of the crucifixion type.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Phenomenology, New Materialism, and Advances In the Pulsatile Imaginary : Rites of Disimagination |
Editors | Nicoletta Isar |
Number of pages | 15 |
Place of Publication | Palgrave Macmillan |
Publisher | Palgrave Macmillan, Cham |
Publication date | 2024 |
Pages | 145-159 |
Chapter | 7 |
ISBN (Print) | 9783031499449 |
ISBN (Electronic) | 9783031499456 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 2024 |
- Faculty of Humanities
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