ČLOVEK, KTORÝ VYNACHÁDZA SÁM SEBA: AMERICKOSŤ A OSTROVNOSŤ V DIELACH JONASA MEKASA A BEATRICE GIBSONOVEJ

• Authors: Nicholas Christelle

Title variants

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Man who invents himself: Americanness and insularity in the works of Jonas Mekas and Beatrice Gibson

• Languages of publication: SK

Abstracts

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Two artworks concerning exile and New York, world city and archipelago: Walden by Jonas Mekas (1969) with reference to Henri David Thoreau (1854); and A Necessary Music by Beatrice Gibson (2009) according to The Invention of Morel by Adolfo Bioy Casares (1940). Are these artworks a recreation by the separation achieved by the desert island as described and conceptualized by Gilles Deleuze? But here, the desert island is also a new world, the possible space to new human being, to humans who are inventing themselves by the geographical distance from the Ancients, from Europe and Africa: America.

Keywords

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AMERICANNESS; INSULARITY; DELEUZE GILLES; MEKAS JONAS; GIBSON BÉATRICE; CASARES ADOLFO; THOREAU HENRI

• Publisher: Institute of History of Art, Slovak Academy of Sciences
• Journal: ARS
• Year: 2020
• Volume: 53
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 82 – 89

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Nicholas Christelle

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