Through a series of provocative conversations, Frederick Luis
Aldama and Herbert Lindenberger, who have written widely on
literature, film, music, and art, locate a place for the
discomforting and the often painfully unpleasant within aesthetics.
The conversational format allows them to travel informally across
many centuries and many art forms. They have much to tell one
another about the arts since the advent of modernism soon after
1900-the nontonal music, for example, of the Second Vienna School,
the chance-directed music and dance of John Cage and Merce
Cunningham, the in-your-faceness of such diverse visual artists as
Francis Bacon, Pablo Picasso, Willem de Kooning, Egon Schiele, Otto
Dix, and Damien Hirst. They demonstrate as well a long tradition of
discomforting art stretching back many centuries, for example, in
the Last Judgments of innumerable Renaissance painters, in Goya's
so-called "black" paintings, in Wagner's Tristan chord, and in the
subtexts of Shakespearean works such as King Lear and Othelloe.
This book is addressed at once to scholars of literature, art
history, musicology, and cinema. Although its conversational format
eschews the standard conventions of scholarly argument, it provides
original insights both into particular art forms and into
individual works within these forms. Among other matters, it
demonstrates how recent work in neuroscience may provide insights
in the ways that consumers process difficult and discomforting
works of art. The book also contributes to current aesthetic theory
by charting the dialogue that goes on-especially in aesthetically
challenging works- between creator, artifact, and consumer.
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