Art and emotions [SEC=PERSONAL]

[michael.pushkin]

Dear SEELANGERS,

How about the 'skandal' which, according to Mayakovsky's own account, he
provoked when he first read 'NATE!' in public on 19 October 1913? He graced
the opening of the Rozovyi fonar' literary cabaret on Mamonovskii pereulok
in Moscow (Moskovskii TYuZ is now on that site) with this poem, which
culminates in him spitting in the faces of the 'hundred-headed louse', the
fat, flabby crowd with half-eaten cabbage in their whiskers. Whistles, cries
of 'Doloi!, the police intervene, and the place is then closed down.

Mike Pushkin
CREES/ERI
University of Birmingham
UK

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Sent: Monday, April 16, 2007 12:11 AM
Subject: [SEELANGS] Art and emotions [SEC=PERSONAL]


> Hi all,
>
> In 1885 a Russian painter I'lya Repin exhibited a painting in Moscow
called
> Ivan the Terrible Kills His Son (You can see the painting at the wikipedia
> site: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:REPIN_Ivan_Terrible%26Ivan.jpg).
The
> painting evoked strong reactions. It was reported that a few viewers
fainted,
> shocked by the painting. In 1913 a Russian priest entered the gallery
> attacked it with a knife three times.
>
> I was wondering if people know of similar (strong emotional reactions)to a
> work of art (in particular visual and musical).
>
> Thanks
>
> Subhash
>
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