On Invasiveness and ‘Aesthetics of the devoured’ in Hélio Oiticica’s Tropicália

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  • エリオ・オイチシカ《トロピカリア》における侵襲性と〈食人の思想〉
  • エリオ ・ オイチシカ 《 トロピカリア 》 ニ オケル シンシュウセイ ト 〈 ショクジン ノ シソウ 〉

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This paper clarified the significance of ‘Philosophy of Anthropophagy’ by a Brazilian artist Hélio Oiticica (1937-1980) in Tropicália, his work of art in 1967. He was one of the most representative artists of Brazil. His works were characterized by spatial involvement with a viewer or a viewer’s active participation. Tropicália might be one of the most important things in his works and was considered to be a ‘cannibalistic’ work affected by Oswald de Andrade, a Brazilian critic and poet. Oiticica accepted this opinion too. On Tropicália, however, Oiticica described that he was devoured by this work, while Andrade as an ideal ‘cannibal’ attempted to devour and absorb the western culture. This study started with this problem. At first, I overviewed Oiticica’s career and Tropicália and showed a problem with this work. Oiticica wrote his experience with a television set in Tropicália. This experience was problematic for ‘Philosophy of Anthropophagy’. Second, I analysed the experience from the point of view of “invasiveness”. Finally, I clarified the significance of the result caused by that invasiveness in terms of “Aesthetics of the devoured”.

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  • Aesthetics

    Aesthetics 68 (2), 85-, 2017

    The Japanese Society for Aesthetics

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