Abstract

FRAGALE PATE NUNEZ, Carlinda. Nymphs and Maenads - Ancient Images in Love and Rage Stories by Contemporary Brazilian Artists. UH [online]. 2016, n.282, pp. 202-215. ISSN 0253-9276.

Based on Aby Warburg's Art History and the roles attributed to nymphs and maenads in it, the article proposes a panel with Brazilian works of different types (literature, painting and cinema), in order to demonstrate the dual agency in the paradoxical coctail love/violence: on the one hand, the detection of dialectical features in these emotional patterns; on the other hand, the complementarity between theoretical approaches and artistic codes that elucidate the survival of the Antiquity in new historicities. Benjamin, Bataille, Girard and Agamben contribute to the theoretical approach of this article. The analytical corpus includes paintings by Di Cavalcanti, the film Reflections of a blender (Brazil, 2010) and Sant'Anna's novel The Brazilian Tragedy (1987). In these works, figurations of pathetically intensified imaginary (Pathosformeln) survive, recovering ancient gestures impervious to the control of imaginary and bodies throughout history.

Keywords : nymphs; maenads; Pathosformel; Brazilian art.

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