Raúl Ruiz y La Poética Barroca

  • Valdebenito Carrasco, Yocelyn
Publication date
January 2012
Publisher
Centro Telúrico de Investigaciones Teóricas

Abstract

The purpose of this essay is to make a comparative analysis between the film �\Hipotesis de un Cuadro Robado. (�\The Hypothesis of the Stolen Painting.) by Raul Ruiz, starting with the critical method that Jose Lezama Lima called the network of images or counterpoint method. This method iniciated a singular perspective and the bold interpretation of historical temporality, not as the linear narration of the European-Occidental world, but as a snapshot of temporalities between the past and present, which is a characteristic element of the (Neo-) Baroque aesthetic of Latin American origin, and which certainly challenged the concept of a hegemonic aesthetic and Euro-centrism. This article proposes to discuss the stylistic similarities and conc...

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