"MAITRES ANCIENS" DE NICOLAS MAHLER (D’APRÈS THOMAS BERNHARD) : L’ART À L’ÉPREUVE DE LA CARICATURE
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https://doi.org/10.24193/subbphilo.2017.3.05Keywords:
adaptation, art, caricature, fragment, iconoclasm.Abstract
Old Masters of Nicolas Mahler (after Thomas Bernhard): Art Which Tests the Caricature. Nicolas Mahler, born 1969 in Vienna, is a major figure in the German-speaking world of comics and his graphic novel Old Masters (2011) falls in with his own reflection on art. I will try to identify the devices (options of narrative patterns, graphic style, etc.) thanks to which he aligns this adaptation of a comedy by the Austrian novelist and playwright Thomas Bernhard with his own works. The systematic wrecking of art that the musicologist Reger carries out in his diatribes thus translates in the graphic novel as a radical iconoclasm. Indeed, Reger’s defense of an aesthetic of the fragment as well as his praise for caricature become in Mahler’s adaptation quite an irreverent effort to deconstruct old masters and their works.
REZUMAT. Vechi maeștri de Nicolas Mahler (după Thomas Bernhard): arta și proba caricaturii. Nicolas Mahler, născut la Viena în 1969, figură majoră pentru banda desenată germanofonă, înscrie romanul său grafic Vechi maeștri (2011) în propria sa reflecție cu privire la artă. Vom căuta să determinăm prin ce procedee el reușește să plaseze în continuitatea operei sale această adaptare a comediei romancierului și dramaturgului austriac Thomas Bernhard. Demersul de a demola sistematic arta pe care îl întreprinde muzicologul Reger în diatribele sale se traduce astfel în romanul grafic printr-un iconoclasm radical. Estetica fragmentului adoptată de Reger, precum și preferința sa pentru caricatură dau naștere în adaptarea lui Mahler, unei lucrări de deconstrucție irevocabilă a picturilor vechilor maeștri.
Cuvinte cheie: adaptare, artă, caricatură, fragment, iconoclasm
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