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Marta Aleksandrowicz
Aesthetic Modelling at the Limit of the Human Montage
Vignettes of Homes and Homing
This essay explores the psychoanalytic work of Willy Apollon, and the creative work of Lygia Clark and Clarice Lispector, to rethink the human through an aesthetic lens. While Apollon locates the human outside the cultural montage that controls creativity and desire, Clark’s sculpture Bichos and Lispector’s novel The Passion According to G.H. model the human as a different, transindividual kind of montage through the aesthetic practice of breaking prevailing models of language, subjectivity, and sculpture.
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Aesthetic Modelling at the Limit of the Human Montage
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Vignettes of Homes and Homing
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Marta Aleksandrowicz
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This essay explores the psychoanalytic work of Willy Apollon, and the creative work of Lygia Clark and Clarice Lispector, to rethink the human through an aesthetic lens. While Apollon locates the human outside the cultural montage that controls creativity and desire, Clark’s sculpture Bichos and Lispector’s novel The Passion According to G.H. model the human as a different, transindividual kind of montage through the aesthetic practice of breaking prevailing models of language, subjectivity, and sculpture.
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Berlin
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ICI Berlin Press
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20 May 2025
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montage
aesthetic
psychoanalysis
Willy Apollon
Lygia Clark
Clarice Lispector
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© by the author(s)
Except for images or otherwise noted, this publication is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
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en-GB
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263
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285
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Breaking and Making Models, ed. by Christoph F. E. Holzhey, Marietta Kesting, and Claudia Peppel, Cultural Inquiry, 33 (Berlin: ICI Berlin Press, 2025), pp. 263–85
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