The Rilke quote - Perhaps it is a reference to that sense of awe when an
artist penetrates the Platonic veils to behold Beauty (the just, the
beautiful, the good) and then realises that soon he must be transported
back to the mundane ...where this that is beautiful disappears and only
the struggle of the artist remains, a Sisyphean task.
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gyoungblood wrote:
> Prof. Shaw,
> I am struck by the Rilke quote but somewhat baffled about its meaning.
> Why is beauty the beginning of any kind of terror, bearable or otherwise?
>
> Perhaps my difficulty comes from a certain understanding of "beauty,"
> expressed by John Cage: "Art begins where beauty ends."
>
> This can mean either (a) that art must always redefine beauty, or (b)
> that beauty isn't the point of art, or (c) both. In any case, it seems
> to me that art, not beauty, is the real source of terror bearable or
> unbearable.
>
> What are your thoughts?
>
>
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>
> This is infectious:
>
> Slim Pickens riding the back of the nuclear bomb at the end of Dr.
> Strangelove...
>
> James Mason seeing Sue Lyon sunning herself in her bikini and heart
> shaped sunglasses in Lolita...
>
> Little Alex coming back to himself as the Prime Minister brings him
> the huge stereo at the end of Clockwork Orange ("I was cured alright")
>
>
>
> "For beauty is the beginning of terror we are still able to bear, and
> why we love it so is because it so serenely disdains to destroy us"
> Rilke's First Duino Elegy
>
> Daniel Shaw
> Professor of Philosophy and Film
> Lock Haven University
> Managing Editor, Film and Philosophy
> website: www.lhup.edu/dshaw
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