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Estok Simon C. Curriculum Vitae, Simon C. Estok

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Active, Disorienting, And Transitional: The Aesthetic Of Boredom(S) In The Multimedia Works Of Nam June Paik (1932-2006), Eugene Kwon

Undergraduate Theses—Unrestricted

The term boredom has a long and complex history. Boredom has been a topic of interest for both critical theorists and artists from various disciplines since antiquity. In the sixties, the meaning of the term boredom took on new significance as several art critics employed the term “boredom” to describe contemporary artworks. One artist from this period did not hesitate to describe his artworks as boring: Nam June Paik (1932-2006), a multimedia artist known for his avant-garde installations, sculptures, videos, and films. In my study, I argue that an aesthetic of boredom underlies certain works by Paik that employ particular ...

"Mich Beschäftigen Vor Allem Dinge, Die Sich In Meiner Umgebung Abspielen": Konstruktionen Des Privaten Und Des Öffentlichen In Der Literatur Der Brd Und Der Ddr, Christina E. Getaz

Honors Projects

Common knowledge assumes that capitalism and socialism structured life differently with regards to what was public and private. This paper critically investigates this notion, focusing not on property, but on the realm of ideas and personal experiences. With a basis in historical and theoretical notions of the public and private spheres as conceptualized by Hannah Arendt, I analyze critical works by Jurek Becker and Heinrich Böll written in the two German states in the 1970s. Focusing on the ways in which these works depict an entanglement of the public and the private, I show how the East- and West-German works ...

Nietzsche’S Zarathustra And Parodic Style: On Lucian’S Hyperanthropos And Nietzsche’S Übermensch, Babette Babich

Articles and Chapters in Academic Book Collections

It is well-known that as a term, Nietzsche’s Übermensch derives from Lucian of Samosata’s hyperanthropos. I argue that Zarathustra’s teaching of the overman acquires new resonances by reflecting on the context of that origination from Lucian’s Kataplous – literally, “sailing into port” – referring to the soul’s journey (ferried by Charon, guided by Hermes) into the afterlife. The Kataplous he tyrannos, usually translated Downward Journey or The Tyrant, is a Menippean satire of the “overman” who is imagined to be superior to others of “lesser” station in this-worldly life and the same tyrant after his (comically unwilling ...

Active, Disorienting, And Transitional: The Aesthetic Of Boredom In The Works Of Nam June Paik (1932-2006), Eugene Kwon

Undergraduate Research Symposium

The term boredom has a long and complex history. Boredom has been a topic of interest for both critical theorists and artists from various disciplines since antiquity. In the sixties, the meaning of the term boredom took on new significance as several art critics employed the term “boredom” to describe contemporary artworks. One artist from this period did not hesitate to describe his artworks as boring: Nam June Paik (1932-2006), a multimedia artist known for his avant-garde installations, sculptures, videos, and films. In my study, I argue that an aesthetic of boredom underlies certain works by Paik that employ particular ...

Angelica Kauffmann Reads Goethe: Illustrations In The Goeschen Edition, Waltraud Maierhofer

The Sophie Journal

This article discusses the use of illustrations -- and their relinquishment -- in the first edition of collected works by Johann Wolfgang Goethe (Goethe's Schriften, 1786--90) and focuses on three illustrations by the pre-eminent eighteenth-century artist Angelica Kauffmann (1741–1807), done in Rome. They form, I argue, real illustrations, not mere decor or images independent from the text.

The images in question are:

1. A scene from Goethe’s play Iphigenie auf Tauris

2. A scene from Goethe’s play Egmont

3. an allegorical portrait of Goethe/a poet with the muses of tragedy and comedy.

In his published descriptions in ...

Vertrag Und Frust Statt Peitsche Und Lust? - Der Masochistische Sklavenvertrag Als Parodie Und Theater In Leopold Von Sacher-Masochs Venus Im Pelz, Anna Walburga Nisch

Masters Theses

This thesis addresses the masochist slave contract in Leopold von Sacher-Masochs Venus im Pelz and reads the slave contract between Severin and Wanda as a parody of the 19th century marriage contract. This interpretation points to the need to understand masochism less as a sexual perversion and more as a reaction to specific political and historical conditions. By becoming a cruel woman, the dominatrix symbolizes female emancipation from the dominant role of men. Especially in the marriage contract, the woman is suppressed by male power and has only limited rights. The masochist uses acontract to legitimate the woman´s liberation ...

Buchstäblich / Literally: New Work By Nina Pops, Scott Abbott

Scott Abbott

An exploration of the possibilities of painting a novel, of producing an abstract response to characters and plot of Zarko Radakovic's novel Pogled/Der Blick/The View.

Fixing The Sonosopher, Scott Abbott

Scott Abbott

Essay on the Documentary Film by Travis Low and Torben Bernhard