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Dichtung und Wahnsinn: Der Fall Lukrez

Aufsatz von Dorothea Weber

Abstract

There are only few examples from Greco-Roman antiquity that provide evidence that a physical defect and particular artistic ability were thought to coincide in a compensatory way. They regard figures of myth or a mythologically shaped past. A unique case is the poet-philosopher Lucretius (1st century BC), who was attested insanity in the biographical tradition. Primarily, though not exclusively, this narrative reveals a clearly polemical orientation. However, it can also be understood in the context of the idea that a poet who lacks the power of his senses opens himself up to divine inspiration precisely because of this supposed shortcoming.

Über die Autorin: Dorothea Weber, Universität Salzburg

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Empfohlene Zitierweise: Dorothea Weber: „Dichtung und Wahnsinn : Der Fall Lukrez“ , in: Kunst und Gebrechen, hg. v. Hildegard Fraueneder, Manfred Kern und Nora Grundtner, Wien: Sonderzahl 2024 (Figurationen des Übergangs 1), S. 303-317, DOI: 10.25598/transitionen-2024-i_11, <https://transition.hypotheses.org/4834>

Zur Inszenierung körperlicher Defizite als Manifestation poetischer Potenz in Ulrichs von Liechtenstein ‘Frauendienst’

Aufsatz von Ronny F. Schulz

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This essay deals with the mise-en-scène of art and disability in Ulrich von Liechtenstein’s Frauendienst, a fictional autobiography from around 1250. The operation of a cleft lip of the first-person narrator and the cutting off of a finger in the service of his lady are read against the background of various discourses. It turns out that the medical topic is transformed into a poetological discourse: The physical infirmity is, e.g., idealized and aestheticized when the truncated finger is included into a golden book cover. In thematizing disability, however, it also becomes clear that the poet’s sufferings make him distinguishable from the sufferings of others and that he ultimately finds a unique characteristic in his suffering.

Über den Autor: Ronny F. Schulz, Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel

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Empfohlene Zitierweise: Ronny F. Schulz: „Zur Inszenierung körperlicher Defizite als Manifestation poetischer Potenz in Ulrichs von Liechtenstein ‘Frauendienst’“ , in: Kunst und Gebrechen, hg. v. Hildegard Fraueneder, Manfred Kern und Nora Grundtner, Wien: Sonderzahl 2024 (Figurationen des Übergangs 1), S. 279-302, DOI: 10.25598/transitionen-2024-i_10, <https://transition.hypotheses.org/4828>

Weiblichkeit als ‚Gebrechen’. Von Sofonisba Anguissola bis Amanda Palmer

Aufsatz von Romana Sammern

Abstract

This article traces the structural parallelization of femininity and infirmity in terms of the normatively deficient in the long history of women artists‘ biographies. Taking Maike Christadler’s groundbreaking study on the relationship between creativity and gender in art historiography as a starting point, it outlines the narrative of equating femininity and infirmity in art historiography since the mythical role model of Iaia/Marcia and asks about counter-representations to biography in self-portraits of artists such as Sofonisba Anguissola, Artemisia Gentileschi, and Frida Kahlo.

Über die Autorin: Romana Sammern, Universität Salzburg/Universität Mozarteum Salzburg

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Empfohlene Zitierweise: Romana Sammern: „Weiblichkeit als ‚Gebrechen‘ : Von Sofonisba Anguissola bis Amanda Palmer“ , in: Kunst und Gebrechen, hg. v. Hildegard Fraueneder, Manfred Kern und Nora Grundtner, Wien: Sonderzahl 2024 (Figurationen des Übergangs 1), S. 250-277, DOI: 10.25598/transitionen-2024-i_9, <https://transition.hypotheses.org/4808>

Was wäre Blindheit ohne das Wort des Blinden? Subversives Potential der Selbstdarstellung und künstlerische Kraft des Sehverlusts in der Autobiographie

Aufsatz von Céline Roussel

Defying the stereotypical representations of blindness that associate it with a personal tragedy, with darkness and colourlessness, the literary works of blind writers like Jacques Lusseyran (1924–1971), John Martin Hull (1935–2015) and Georgina Kleege (1956–), and even some of the writings of Helen Keller (1880–1968), who has become a myth, surprise us with their colourful and varied aspects, as well as their subversive potential in many ways. In these works that resist and oppose the commonly widespread discourses and views of sighted people on blindness, the authors resort to narratological, rhetorical and lexical means, ultimately revealing that the conventional representation of infirmity is itself frail. In doing so, they do not only contribute to a change of perspective about blindness and the ways to depict it; by re-appropriating language for themselves through their discursive practice, they also give blindness a deeper meaning and artistic power. When described in its fullness, blindness frequently turns out to be a spur to the aestheticisation of reality.

Über die Autorin: Céline Roussel, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München

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Empfohlene Zitierweise: Céline Roussel: “Was wäre Blindheit ohne das Wort des Blinden? Subversives Potential der Selbstdarstellung und künstlerische Kraft des Sehverlusts in der Autobiographie”, in: Kunst und Gebrechen, hg. v. Hildegard Fraueneder, Manfred Kern und Nora Grundtner, Wien: Sonderzahl 2024 (Figurationen des Übergangs 1), S. 223-249, DOI: 10.25598/transitionen-2024-i_8, <https://transition.hypotheses.org/4800>

„Der Einsamkeiten tiefste schauend unter meinem Fuß…“? Max Klingers tauber Beethoven und die erlösende Kraft der Musik

Aufsatz von Max Pommer

The essay refers to Max Klinger’s Beethoven, which is one of the most important sculptures of German art around 1900. On Beethoven’s pedestal is an unrealized writing from Goethe’s Faust II, which focusses on the relationship between art and infirmity. This writing, removed by Klinger, serves as the starting point for the text. The article shows that the sculpture must be understood as a complex reflection on the composer’s deafness, which as an affliction makes the artist’s creative power possible at all.

The argumentation contextualises the sculpture in the Beethoven reception of the 19th century. Both the torso and the relief panels of the throne are analysed. This interpretation of Beethoven references in particular Arthur Schopenhauer’s philosophy as well as Richard Wagner’s essay Beethoven. It becomes evident that Klinger follows a metaphysical understanding of music of the late 19th century and understands the composer as a musician redeemed through art. The affliction of deafness is thereby interpreted as the basis of an art that frees the sufferer from his torment.

Über den Autor: Max Pommer, Städtische Museen Jena

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Empfohlene Zitierweise: Max Pommer: „‚Der Einsamkeiten tiefste schauend unter meinem Fuß …‘? : Max Klingers tauber Beethoven und die erlösende Kraft der Musik, in: Kunst und Gebrechen, hg. v. Hildegard Fraueneder, Manfred Kern und Nora Grundtner, Wien: Sonderzahl 2024 (Figurationen des Übergangs 1), S. 191-222, DOI: 10.25598/transitionen-2024-i_7, <https://transition.hypotheses.org/4770>

Figurationen des Übergangs

Kunst und Wissenschaft können allgemein als diejenigen Bereiche gelten, in denen über „das Leben“ schlechthin nachgedacht wird, wo im Speziellen aber auch Reflexionen über die Voraussetzungen und Möglichkeiten der eigenen Praxis erfolgen. Die Aktivitäten des Programmbereichs “Figurationen des Übergangs” am Kooperationsschwerpunkt “Wissenschaft & Kunst” der Universität Mozarteum und der Paris-Lodron-Universität Salzburg thematisieren Zonen und Dynamiken zwischen Leben und Tod, Individuum und Kollektiv, Kunst und Leben. Sie widmen sich Gestalten und Gestaltungen des Transitorischen in den Künsten sowie in der kulturellen Imagologie und konturiert Stationen einer Kulturgeschichte des Schöpferischen und der Zerstörung, von Anfang und Ende.

Die Reihe Figurationen des Übergangs. Schriften zu Wissenschaft und Kunst dokumentiert die Aktivitäten des Programmbereichs “Figurationen des Übergangs” der interuniversitären Einrichtung “Wissenschaft&Kunst” der Universität Mozarteum und der Paris-Lodron-Universität Salzburg.

„Ich war ja nicht krank – ich war nur krank, aber ganz anders“. Ingeborg Bachmanns (Patho?-)Texte

Aufsatz von Marlen Mairhofer

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This article examines the ongoing literary construction of Ingeborg Bachmann as a ‘sick poet’ and then asks whether – or how – her texts can be read as patho-texts without focusing on the author’s biography. In posthumously published texts („Male Oscuro“) Bachmann attempts to rewrite the narrative of the sick woman by claiming her symptoms as an individual expression of artistic value. In Malina, the relationships between the protagonists are negotiated in metaphors of infection, the mode of viral transmission thus becoming an essential motivic and narrative principle. To illustrate the intricate entanglement of body politics, subjectivity, and power of definition, this essay refers to the philosopher Paul B. Preciado. His theory of the “pharmapornographic regime” describes the development of a pharmaceutical-pornographic apparatus of control that no longer acts only from the outside, but from within the individual’s body.

Über die Autorin: Marlen Mairhofer, Universität Salzburg

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Empfohlene Zitierweise: Marlen Mairhofer: „Ich war ja nicht krank – ich war nur krank, aber ganz anders“: Ingeborg Bachmanns (Patho?-)Texte, in: Kunst und Gebrechen, hg. v. Hildegard Fraueneder, Manfred Kern und Nora Grundtner, Wien: Sonderzahl 2024 (Figurationen des Übergangs 1), S. 175-189, DOI: 10.25598/transitionen-2024-i_6, <https://transition.hypotheses.org/4763>

Prothesen in der Body Art. Zwischen Selbstermächtigung, (Dys-)Funktion und Posthumanismus

Aufsatz von Nelly Janotka

Abstract

In medicine, the prosthesis is defined as technical support and as a mere replacement of body parts. However, the prosthesis is increasingly expanding beyond the field of medical technology and finding new areas of application in pop culture, design and art. Contemporary Body Art in particular is producing works that question and expand the generally accepted medical concept. Is art capable of creating spaces to reinterpret an object commonly regarded as a marker of ‘disability’ into a means of self-empowerment? This article explores this question through artists such as Lisa Bufano, Mari Katayama, Lorenza Böttner and Stelarc. In juxtaposing the various artistic engagements with prostheses, it becomes clear that the ‚human body’ is a concept whose definitions can be shifted and even dissolved. Thus, the prostheses can be attributed neither only to technology nor only to the body. At the same time, it is hardly possible to unequivocally answer when prosthetics themselves are solely intended to compensate for physical ‚defect’ or loss and when they serve other intentions and ideas of the future.

Über die Autorin: Nelly Janotka, Universität Heidelberg

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Empfohlene Zitierweise: Nelly Janotka: „Prothesen in der Body Art. Zwischen Selbstermächtigung,(Dys-)Funktion und Posthumanismus“, in: Kunst und Gebrechen, hg. v. Hildegard Fraueneder, Manfred Kern und Nora Grundtner, Wien: Sonderzahl 2024 (Figurationen des Übergangs 1), S. 137-173, DOI: 10.25598/transitionen-2024-i_5, <https://transition.hypotheses.org/4730>

Kranke Künstler. Das kreative Potential körperlicher Leiden in der Frühen Neuzeit

Aufsatz von Jana Graul

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How did early modern artists such as Albrecht Dürer, Michelangelo, Benvenuto Cellini and Hendrick Goltzius deal with physical ailments? How did they perceive their illnesses? Did they portray themselves as sick? Did lack of recognition affect their health? And were there such things as occupational diseases and accidents at work? This article deals with the subject of physical illness among Italian, German and Dutch artists from the 15th through the 17th centuries. It examines how they thematized and reflected on their illnesses in images and texts; what significance they themselves, art theory, but also society attached to infirmity; what coping strategies can be discerned and in which way physical impairments affected the creation of artworks or were associated with them. The analysis thereby focuses on the stylization, staging and topicality of these written and visual sources. The aim of this study is to show that, instead of being merely a destructive force that drains creative power, the state of illness can likewise function as a moment of empowerment, a source of inspiration that boosts the artist’s creative output and underlines his heroic nature.

Über die Autorin: Jana Graul, Universität Hamburg

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Empfohlene Zitierweise: Jana Graul: „Kranke Künstler. Das kreative Potential körperlicher Leiden in der Frühen Neuzeit“, in: Kunst und Gebrechen, hg. v. Hildegard Fraueneder, Manfred Kern und Nora Grundtner, Wien: Sonderzahl 2024 (Figurationen des Übergangs 1), S. 75-135, DOI: 10.25598/transitionen-2024-i_4, <https://transition.hypotheses.org/4710>

Buckel, Blutsturz und das tägliche Befinden. Widerständige Körperlichkeit im Zeitalter der Autonomie (Lichtenberg, Schiller, Stifter)

Aufsatz von Daniel Ehrmann

Abstract

Vitality is a main aspect of literature since the 18th century. The new conception of literature as art, that was developed around 1770, also changed the notion of the poet, who act as a ‘second maker’ and creates works of art as an effigy of himself. Not all and even some of the most famous authors between 1750 and 1850 fit this very influential depiction. The paper presents reasons for that in the historical context and explores some of the consequences. It lays out the frictions between the notion of autonomous production and the actual limitations imposed on it by the bodies that have to execute it.

Über den Autor: Daniel Ehrmann, Universität Wien

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Empfohlene Zitierweise: Daniel Ehrmann: „Buckel, Blutsturz und das tägliche Befinden. Widerständige Körperlichkeit im Zeitalter der Autonomie (Lichtenberg, Schiller, Stifter)“, in: Kunst und Gebrechen, hg. v. Hildegard Fraueneder, Manfred Kern und Nora Grundtner, Wien: Sonderzahl 2024 (Figurationen des Übergangs 1), S. 41-73, DOI: 10.25598/transitionen-2024-i_3, <https://transition.hypotheses.org/4696>

Wie das Stottern aus Gogol’s Mantel kam. Bemerkungen zum Stottern von Michail Gasparov, Jurij Lotman und Vladimir Sorokin

Aufsatz von Peter Deutschmann

Abstract

When writers have to cope with stuttering, is this speech-language deficiency of pertinence for their literary work? A lack of fluency in speaking can be simply compensated by writing. In the case of three prominent writers from Russia – the historian and prominent theorist of literature and culture, Iurii Lotman, the specialist in Classics and history of European versification, Mikhail Gasparov, and the conceptualist writer Vladimir Sorokin – their more or less severe stuttering is not very well known. Nonetheless, these personalities have not concealed their handicap in speech but decided to speak out in public.

The paper discusses this remarkable decision for speaking with stutter with respect to Nikolai Gogol’s story The Overcoat/Shinel’ (1842). This story has first been read in a key of social criticism but since Boris Eichenbaum’s famous study „How Gogol’s Overcoat is Made“ (1918) the peculiarities of the narrator’s speech are under scrutiny. Similarly to Eichenbaum who emphasised the narrator’s discourse instead of the story’s content this contribution to ‘Art and Disability’ risks to discuss the speech impediments of these three illustrious Russian hommes de lettres.

Über den Autor: Peter Deutschmann, Universität Salzburg

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Empfohlene Zitierweise: Peter Deutschmann: „Wie das Stottern aus Gogol’s Mantel kam. Bemerkungen zum Stottern von Michail Gasparov, Jurij Lotman und Vladimir Sorokin“, in: Kunst und Gebrechen, hg. v. Hildegard Fraueneder, Manfred Kern und Nora Grundtner, Wien: Sonderzahl 2024 (Figurationen des Übergangs 1), S. 19-40, DOI: 10.25598/transitionen-2024-i_2, <https://transition.hypotheses.org/4668>