Heretical Aesthetics: Pasolini on Painting Giammei Alessandro
Heretical Aesthetics: Pasolini on Painting Giammei Alessandro First collection on filmmaker and poet Pasolini's passion for paintingOne of Europe's most mythologized Marxist intellectuals of the 20th…
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Heretical Aesthetics: Pasolini on Painting Giammei Alessandro
First collection on filmmaker and poet Pasolini's passion for paintingOne of Europe's most mythologized Marxist intellectuals of the 20th century, Pier Paolo Pasolini was not only a poet, filmmaker, novelist, and political martyr. An intermittently practicing artist in his own right, Pasolini studied under the distinguished art historian Roberto Longhi, whose lessons marked a life-long affinity for figurative painting and its centrality to a particular cinematic sensibility.Pasolini set out wilfully to "contaminate" art criticism with semiotics, dialectology, and film theory, penning catalogue essays and exhibition reviews alongside poems, autobiographical meditations, and public lectures on painting. He was also a keen critic of painting.
His fiercely idiosyncratic blend of Communism and classicism, localism and civic universalism, iconophilia and aesthetic "heresy,"