The ugly in art and image
Beauty
Crisis of beauty in art and imagery
Death in art and image : representations of death
Evil
The impossible in art and literature
The monstruous
Excitement, suspense and human relations : Hitchcock and Hopper
The inhuman in art and culture
The sublime
The abject (Kristeva, Bataille)
Erotism
Georges Bataille
David Lynch : Lost highway, madness and film noir
Transgression (G. Bataille) in culture, art and imagery
Voyeurism in culture, voyeurism and surveillance-society
The look and theatrical staging in western culture : the world as a theatre spectacle
The look and power
The look in western culture : genealogical approach (M. Foucault)
Death and the sacred through a comparative study of 'Death of Marat' (David) and photographs of Che Guevara (Alborta and Korda)
Disgust: In culture, art/aesthetics
Death
Symbols of death : skull, corpse, skeletons, photographs of ancestors
Memento mori and Vanitas : human vulnerability, frailty in art and imagery
Horror
The Corpse as an experience of death and as an element of art and popular culture
Cannibalism : anthropological and philosophical, in popular image (movies)
Violence and art/imagery
Holocaust and representation in art and popular culture
Genocide and art
Death and heroism in art: making sacred
The sacred in art : past and present
Religion and violence
The female nude from Renaissance to impressionism to Madame Edwarda (G. Bataille)
(Re)presentations of the body in art and popular culture
What is an image?
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…and a lot of other disturbing and alienating topics from a historical and philosophical point of view.
Can be brought in Dutch, English or French.
If you have a topic in mind that is not in this list but touches on some items in the list….you can always contact me and ask : [email protected]
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