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Thibault Isabel: pessimism in art

January 14, 2011 | by | Leave a Comment

Thibault Isabel sees all modern art forms as so many symptoms of the diseases afflicting society. Doctor in film studies, he gave us in “The Field of Possibles” (“Le Champ du Possible”, 2005) the intellectual outline of a ‘psychology of art’ which would attempt to reconcile art and life. In “The End of Century of American Cinema” (“La Fin de Siècle du Cinéma Américain”, 2006), Thibault Isabel investigates the causes of what he considers to be the decline of a contemporary society without a credible perspective of remission, through their reflections on the screens of the seventh art. Finally, with “The Paradox of Civilization” (“Le Paradoxe de la Civilisation”, 2010), he will pronounce himself for the return of old forms of violence, and their paradoxical integration into a ‘civilizing process’…

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