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And by a prudent flight and cunning save A life which valour could not, from the grave. A better buckler I can soon regain, But who can get another life again? Archilochus

Saturday, May 10, 2025

Susan Sontag, "The Artist as Exemplary Sufferer"

“For the modern consciousness, the artist (replacing the saint) is the exemplary sufferer. And among artists, the writer, the man of words, is the person to whom we look to be able best to express his suffering.” 
― Susan Sontag
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, "Self-Portrait as a Soldier" (1915)

More on the Sontag text and "Notes on Camp"

More on Charismatic Transference.

Antoniazzo Romano, "The Virgin Invoking God to Heal the Hand of Pope Leo I" (~1475)

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