| Titre | Un exemple d'émancipation par l'art : le Galilée de Brecht | |
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| Auteur | Pierre Macherey | |
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Revue | Actuel Marx |
| Numéro | no 45, avril 2009 Arts et politiques | |
| Page | 66-79 | |
| Résumé anglais |
An Example of Emancipation through Art: Brecht's Galileo
The challenge which Brecht set himself was to make theatre a means of emancipation, by placing
it in the service of the revolution. His work dealing with the exemplary figure of Galileo, which
mobilised his energies between 1938 and his death in 1959, testifies to the succession of problems
he came up against in his attempt to carry out this programme. For Brecht, the attempt to arrive at
a scenic presentation of the complex relations between science and its social environment implied
the endeavour to engage the audience in the formulation of a problem for which the theatrical
performance eschewed the option of any ready-made solution. To do so could only be way of
the representation of a model which was both attractive and repulsive, and by highlighting what
was a fluctuating complex of contradictions. For Brecht, the status of art is thus to constitute an
open-ended inquiry rather than the presentation, for propaganda purposes, of a set of cut-and
dried ideas. Source : Éditeur (via Cairn.info) |
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