Luminous wounds: spectral childhoods in contemporary painting and literature

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The painter Gottfried Helnwein, born in Vienna in 1948, has made the topic of childhood his trademark through a work extending over half a century. His children embody disturbing figures. They can be recognized as specters of our contemporary culture. The impulse that leads him towards the subject i...

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Autor principal: Punte, María José
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Publicado: Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, Universidad de Buenos Aires 2023
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infancia; pintura y literatura; espectralidad; Alemania y Argentina; Gottfried Helnwein
childhood; painting and literature; spectrality; Germany and Argentina; Gottfried Helnwein
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spelling I28-R145-13984_oai2025-11-17 Punte, María José 2023-12-29 The painter Gottfried Helnwein, born in Vienna in 1948, has made the topic of childhood his trademark through a work extending over half a century. His children embody disturbing figures. They can be recognized as specters of our contemporary culture. The impulse that leads him towards the subject is linked to his childhood experiences in his country, Austria, after the period of National Socialism, but is reinforced by the current constellations in which minors are inserted. His work is often defined as an example of “sinister hyperrealism”. Helnwein’s infants are problematic because they destabilize established ideas of what is meant by a child. In that sense, these figures are queerized through representation. The definition of “luminous wounds” finds resonances in some literary texts too. For this work, we are examining two novels as well: Austerlitz (2001) by the German writer W.G. Sebald and El Dock (1993) by the Argentine Matilde Sánchez. In both texts, the children question us with the same icy fury as Helnwein’s infants. El artista plástico Gottfried Helnwein, nacido en Viena en 1948, ha convertido el tópico de la infancia en su marca registrada a través de una obra que se extiende a lo largo de medio siglo. Sus niñes corporizan figuras de lo inquietante. Son configurados como espectros de nuestra cultura contemporánea. El impulso que lo conduce hacia la temática se encuentra ligado a sus vivencias infantiles en ese país, Austria, que estaba emergiendo de la experiencia traumática del nacionalsocialismo, pero se refuerza con las actuales constelaciones en las que se inserta a los menores. Su obra suele ser definida como ejemplo de un “hiperrealismo siniestro”. Los infantes de Helnwein resultan problemáticos porque desestabilizan las ideas establecidas de lo que se entiende por niñe. En ese sentido, estas figuras resultan queerizadas mediante la representación. La definición de “heridas luminosas” encuentra resonancias en algunos textos provenientes de la literatura. Para este trabajo se tomarán los ejemplos de Austerlitz (2001) del escritor alemán W.G. Sebald y El Dock (1993) de la argentina Matilde Sánchez. En ambos textos, sus niños nos interpelan con la misma furia helada que los infantes de Helnwein. application/pdf https://revistascientificas.filo.uba.ar/index.php/interlitteras/article/view/13984 10.34096/interlitteras.n5.13984 spa Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, Universidad de Buenos Aires https://revistascientificas.filo.uba.ar/index.php/interlitteras/article/view/13984/12608 Derechos de autor 2023 Inter Litteras Inter Litteras; Núm. 5 (2023) 2683-9695 0328-8935 infancia; pintura y literatura; espectralidad; Alemania y Argentina; Gottfried Helnwein childhood; painting and literature; spectrality; Germany and Argentina; Gottfried Helnwein Luminous wounds: spectral childhoods in contemporary painting and literature Heridas luminosas: infancias espectrales en la pintura y en la literatura contemporáneas info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion https://repositoriouba.sisbi.uba.ar/gsdl/cgi-bin/library.cgi?a=d&c=interlit&d=13984_oai
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topic infancia; pintura y literatura; espectralidad; Alemania y Argentina; Gottfried Helnwein
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Punte, María José
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description The painter Gottfried Helnwein, born in Vienna in 1948, has made the topic of childhood his trademark through a work extending over half a century. His children embody disturbing figures. They can be recognized as specters of our contemporary culture. The impulse that leads him towards the subject is linked to his childhood experiences in his country, Austria, after the period of National Socialism, but is reinforced by the current constellations in which minors are inserted. His work is often defined as an example of “sinister hyperrealism”. Helnwein’s infants are problematic because they destabilize established ideas of what is meant by a child. In that sense, these figures are queerized through representation. The definition of “luminous wounds” finds resonances in some literary texts too. For this work, we are examining two novels as well: Austerlitz (2001) by the German writer W.G. Sebald and El Dock (1993) by the Argentine Matilde Sánchez. In both texts, the children question us with the same icy fury as Helnwein’s infants.
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