Angustia y humor en figuraciones finiseculares de diosas y rameras
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Universidad de Zaragoza
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ISSN: 1137-4802
Year of publication: 2016
Issue Title: Las infinitas formas de la Diosa
Issue: 40
Pages: 101-111
Type: Article
More publications in: Trama y fondo: revista de cultura
Abstract
Throughout the 19thCentury the transformations in the field of mythology characterised essentially by two phenomena: the God's death and the revitalisation of the pre-Christian goddesses in their seductive and malefic forms overall. The representation of the ambivalence regarding the feminine is linked to the masculine anxiety. Anxiety which refers to the insecurities with regard to the sense-nonsense of the subject's experience in a world that is transforming very fast. This anxiety has also a humoristic manifestation which is eloquently shown in the exhibitions that the artists' group The Incoherents made in Paris between 1882 and 1893