The aesthetics of illusion is dismissed towards the end of the 19th century, but at the same time, the medium of film lets it return by the back door. That way, the aesthetic practices of illusion are re-imported to other arts: on opera and theatre stages, in galleries and museums people experiment with new ways of incorporating film and video.
Considering this contemporary aesthetic practice of the dissolution of boundaries, Gertrud Koch’s study exposes the...
The aesthetics of illusion is dismissed towards the end of the 19th century, but at the same time, the medium of film lets it return by the back door. That way, the aesthetic practices of illusion are re-imported to other arts: on opera and theatre stages, in galleries and museums people experiment with new ways of incorporating film and video.
Considering this contemporary aesthetic practice of the dissolution of boundaries, Gertrud Koch’s study exposes the fundamental role of film in the aesthetics of illusion and analyses its techniques on the basis of concrete examples from the contemporary (musical) theatre (such as works by Heiner Goebbels and René Pollesch, among others) and the Fine Arts.
Gertrud Koch is professor of Film Studies at the Free University of Berlin and spokesperson for the special research field of »Aesthetic Experience and the Dissolution of Artistic Limits«.
Gertrud Koch is professor of Film Studies at the Free University of Berlin and spokesperson for the special research field of »Aesthetic...