Madness and Civilisation


	Madness and Civilisation
abailart
9-22-2009 5:23 AM
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eremitism, foucault, madness and civilisation
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9-22-2009 10:57 AM
Kelika
Another great clip. Thank you.
9-22-2009 11:46 AM
abailart
Thanks Kelica. This was clipped from hermitary.org just after I had read a literary magazine article which took me to the Dark Mountain site which, itself looking interesting, fits well.
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padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.hermitary.com/thatch/?p=711"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.hermitary.com/img/51A329AA-D818-47BA-B4BA-1BECBA740F66" alt="gryllos of St. Pierre di Louvain, 15th century" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.hermitary.com/thatch/?p=711"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.hermitary.com/img/C0CC1A0D-AD7C-4B97-B09B-A5B6B0609489" alt="gryllos of St. Michel, Brussels, 15th century" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.hermitary.com/thatch/?p=711">Foucault states: “In the fifteenth century the <I>gryllos</I>, image of human madness, becomes one of the preferred figures in the countless <I>Temptations</I>.”</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.hermitary.com/thatch/?p=711"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.hermitary.com/img/17F4EAB9-FE84-4258-9569-35CBA330FB39" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.hermitary.com/thatch/?p=711"><P>The creatures depicted in church art as <I>gryllos</I> (half human, half fantastic animal) and the hybrid monsters of Bosch’s semi-religious paintings are projections of the psychology of a dying culture, a culture riddled with fear and madness.</P></blockquote><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; 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font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.hermitary.com/thatch/?p=711">The creatures depicted in church art as <I>gryllos</I> (half human, half fantastic animal) and the hybrid monsters of Bosch’s semi-religious paintings are projections of the psychology of a dying culture, a culture riddled with fear and madness.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.hermitary.com/thatch/?p=711">Fear and madness are the plagues of a culture that cannot tolerate solitude, silence, simplicity, harmony with nature</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; 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