The Aesthetics of Degenerations and the Obsession of Decay: Image of a Human Body in Luis Buñuel’s Films
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In Buñuel’s films surrealistic vision of the „living beauty” appears a „degenerated beauty”. Buñuel shakes the belief both in physical and moral beauty of a human being. Physical imperfection of characters goes together with their deprivation of sensibility whereas beauty is degraded by moral depravation. Phenomenon of evil and primary injury of the human being become the essence of anthropology in Buñuel’s films. Physical imperfection is always a part or reflection of a sick reality. Human body in Buñuel’s films creates an anthropocosmos which reflects perversity and process of decay of the surrounding reality. Buñuel’s valorization of ugliness (which is reference to the certain esthetic tradition originating in literature and painting) is an attempt to create new esthetic combinations.
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Luis Buñuel, body, uglinessReferences
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Iwona Kolasińskakwartalnik.filmowy@ispan.pl
Jagiellonian University Poland
Pracownik naukowy na wydziale filmoznawstwa Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego.
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