조르주 바타이유에 있어 시각적 죽음과 현대미술 = Visual Death and Art in Georges Bataille

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In Georges Bataille`s thought, the meaning of death is related to an intellectual blindness in epistemological level, and in a more fundamental level of human existence, to the notion of the sacred and eroticism. In that sense, Bataille refused Christian and metaphysical understanding on the world and emphasized his original notion of formless(informe) which encourages to subvert the symbolic and formal order of arts. Formless is a word employed to stigmatize the dominant philosophical system of occidental culture and to define the aesthetics of surrealist art at Bataille`s time. But postmodern theorists as Rosalind Krauss and Yves Alain Bois enlarged and remapped the semantic implication of formless in postmodern way, and enumerated its various concret facets as horizontality, base materialism, pulse and entropy. The visual death or the impossible as dicussed by Bataille, accords to the notion of the real as defined later by Jacques Lacan. For the later, the real is the dimension of death that man endlessly tries to return to and confront beyond the pleasure principle. The recent contemporary art theories based on Bataille look for visual blindness and unconscious driven by death drive paradoxically in the world of clear vision and meaning of visual art.