Indeterminate Configurations

an Analysis of the Diagram and Blot as Anamorphic Deployments in Hans Bellmer's Work

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2178-0447.ars.2019.155645

Keywords:

Formless, Anamorphosis, Blot, Diagram, Chiasm

Abstract

In this article, we investigate the formless in Hans Bellmer’s work as a possibility of re-reading the anamorphosis from the concepts of blot and diagram, studied by Kenneth Clark in his text “The blot and the diagram”. In this sense, we analyze the relationship between body and scenery, exploring how Bellmer seeks to generate ambiguities through the studium – Roland Barthes’ concept –, subverting the iconography dedicated to eroticism and the boundaries between exterior and interior. Based on these processes, we examine how the formless unfolds from the anamorphosis, in order to understand it as a doubt in Bellmer’s work when perspective and anatomy are collapsed by the diagram and the blot, from which elements of abstract and figurative order originate.

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Author Biography

  • Alexandre Rodrigues da Costa, Universidade do Estado de Minas Gerais (UFMG), Brazil

    Alexandre Rodrigues da Costa cursou Graduação em Letras (UFMG), Mestrado em poéticas da Modernidade (UFMG) e Doutorado em Literatura Comparada (UFMG). Realizou Pós-doutorado em Literatura Comparada (UFMG). É Professor de História da Arte, na Escola Guignard (UEMG), departamento de Disciplinas Teóricas e Psicopedagógicas.

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Published

2019-08-31

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Vol. 17 No. 36 (2019)

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Costa, A. R. da. (2019). Indeterminate Configurations: an Analysis of the Diagram and Blot as Anamorphic Deployments in Hans Bellmer’s Work. ARS, 17(36), 79-97. https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2178-0447.ars.2019.155645