Around Leonardo da Vinci: Modernism, terror, dreams and metahistory
Abstract
The paper concerns the issues of reception of Leonardo’s art in Modernist culture. The author investigates the (re)construction of Leonardo’s poetics in avant-garde art and theory. Special attention is paid to the theoretical issues of Cubism, Picasso’s and Duchamp’s personal mythologies, the writings of Walter Pater, Dmitry Merezhkovsky and Alexey Losev. Metahistorical interpretations of Leonardo’s art in the academic art history (Francastel, Argan, Chastel, Gombrich) are considered in the context of Modernist rhetoric tradition. The author examines different ways of appropriation of Leonardo’s art by the Modernist discourse from Nietzsche to Adorno, focusing on the main metaphors of avant-garde theory. Analysis of categories of Modernist aesthetics (concepts of seduction, aura, terror, uncertainty, nature, unconscious, pure vision, alienation, artificiality) enables to shed the new light on the transformation of Leonardo’s image in the Modern époque.
Keywords:
Leonardo da Vinci, issues of reception, Modernism, Marcel Duchamp, Picasso, Cubism
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