Upward Crashes: Fracture's Topoi: Musil, Kiefer, Darger explores
the perception of altitude as a locus of fraction, from the
inception of modernity to the present.Citing examples from
literature, art, theory and media, it examines the paradoxical
trope of a fall or crash into the heights, from a spatial, visual
and ethical perspective. Tracing the trajectory of the fractured
self in pursuit of 'high grounds' it discusses, among others, works
by H lderlin, Musil, Kafka, Kiefer, Darger and Viola. Altitude is
not interpreted as infinite space but as a place of appearance,
akin to Platonic chora a suspension, a temporary exile outside of
matter, where the subject is thrown in force field of tensions that
organizes and evokes images, memories, emotions, and occasionally
trauma.----"Paola Piglia-Veronese's Upward Crashes ... fractures
the classical topoi, or conceptual starting places, of rationality,
as she exemplifies these fractures, or rather ex-stases, in the
work of Musil, Kiefer, and Darger. Paola's is a major contribution
to the literature. A must read "--Victor J. Vitanza----About the
author: Paola Piglia, born in Turin, Italy, was educated at the
University of California, Berkeley (BA Honours) and European
Graduate School, Switzerland, Dept of Media And Communication ( MA,
PhD ). As artist and illustrator she has had long affiliations with
the Frankfurter Allgemeine Magazin, The New York Times Magazine,
Berlin Verlag, Fischer Verlag, The European Commission, and many
others. She has lectured at The Royal College of Art, London;
Virginia Commowealth University Art School and Staatliche Akademie
der Bildenden K nste, Stuttgart, Germany. She lives and works
between London and New York.
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