tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9057225441101183394.post5128037784492672739..comments2024-03-22T21:02:55.051+13:00Comments on Bat, Bean, Beam: Liveblogging the Apocalypse (6): The Triumph of DeathGiovanni Tisohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10618534731338616708noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9057225441101183394.post-90987316850442750692011-07-13T23:08:18.785+12:002011-07-13T23:08:18.785+12:00"What we think are failures of the illustrati..."What we think are failures of the illustrative technique to be able to imagine the body as it actually is are more accurate than we might think."<br /><br />Which makes the contrast with the idealised human figure of the Italian Renaissance all the more instructive. The detail is probably apocryphal, but I like the idea that Bruegel came to Italy, saw all the art that had been producedGiovanni Tisohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10618534731338616708noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9057225441101183394.post-73831390009335333692011-07-12T23:20:57.934+12:002011-07-12T23:20:57.934+12:00I went off on a tangent, and lost it - I meant to ...I went off on a tangent, and lost it - I meant to say that violent death, genocide, or other forms of extreme power manifested on the body unsettle. Death which comes without reason or a framework for interpretation and control (such as we have devised with medicine and science) defies description, and thus in such a context only the insane or supernatural suffices. Who is to say this image is George Dnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9057225441101183394.post-72653906429933552792011-07-12T23:14:47.963+12:002011-07-12T23:14:47.963+12:00It is extremely disturbing (in its Wikimedia incar...It is extremely disturbing (in its Wikimedia incarnation). It's hard not to associate it with the systematic machineries of death we (humans) have constructed in previous centuries. But there's a lot more to it than that.<br /><br />What really made me pale was death drawing a cart, with lamp. The entire image is a litany of violent death, of course, but the desperate attempts of those onGeorge Dnoreply@blogger.com