The Aesthetics of Resistance

Peter Weiss, one of the pioneers and theorists of "documentary theatre", which can be taken as a subtitle of political theater in Germany, focuses on the anti-fascist resistance between 1937 and 1944 and the stories/lives of real people who took part in this resistance, in The Aesthetics of Resistance. From the perspective of an anonymous Ben Narrator (an enlightened worker with class consciousness), he reconstructs history on the planes of art and politics since Ancient Greece. The Aesthetics of Resistance is documentary and historical because it makes use of the data of reality, autobiographical because it has references to the author's life, fictional because it interprets and combines the pieces in the text in a unique way, utopian because it leaves an idea of salvation reflected as an uncertain possibility in the text, and critical of the worldview it supports. It is a multi-layered text that is reconstructive for the world, both documentary-realistic and surrealist with the different forms of expression it uses, and has seminal features because it discusses the political history and art history of Western culture through texts, and is intertextual and reinterprets cultural accumulation.



Number of Pages: 847

Year of Printing: 2013


Language: Turkish
Publisher: Iletisim Publishing

Number of Pages: 847

First Printing Year: 2013

Language Turkish