PHIL 2170 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: World War Ii, Jean-Paul Sartre, Existentialism
2 Oct 2018
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Giacometti (born in isolated village in switzerland)made art with an intense focus on the human body and form. After world war ii, lots of people had existential themes because of the sad cultural mood (across the world). Themes = human fragility and finitude (morality), freedom and choice. Atrocity and the senseless and absurd quality of violence, alienation, resistance against oppression, the absence/silence/ death of god, problem of nihilism. Existentialism as a historical snap shot, it culturally has a considerate impact. Lots of show"s ask us to take responsibility. The search for the absolute, philosophical exploration of the unimportance of giacometti"s work. Sartre see"s giacometti"s work as a refection to capture the human form and paradoxes for doing so. They do not put too much exaggeration of human features. Sartre suggests it"s not authentic, it"s trying to argue what being human is. A dead man to a dead horse = half of a living being.
