Considerations and ambivalence about the tosco aesthetic

The adjective ‘tosco’ is present in Portuguese language carrying a deliberately negative connotation, qualifying things as gross, rude, cringeworthy, among other definitions. This article has the objective of observing how these attributes are used for an aesthetic qualification of diverse visuals,...

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Autores: Batista, Gabriel Silva, Parpinelli, Roberta Stubs
Formato: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2023
País:Brasil
Recursos:Universidade do Estado de Santa Catarina (UDESC)
Repositorio:Palíndromo (Online)
Idioma:portugués
OAI Identifier:oai::article/23381
Acesso em linha:https://www.revistas.udesc.br/index.php/palindromo/article/view/23381
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palavra-chave:aesthetic
tosco
contemporary art
Aesthetic
Contemporary art
arte contemporânea
estética
Estética
Arte contemporânea
Arte contemporáneo
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Resumo:The adjective ‘tosco’ is present in Portuguese language carrying a deliberately negative connotation, qualifying things as gross, rude, cringeworthy, among other definitions. This article has the objective of observing how these attributes are used for an aesthetic qualification of diverse visuals, weaving relations between image, viewer and contemporary world. Using considerations about similar aesthetics, like the grotesque, it intends to investigate how an aesthetic category named as tosca would be delimited, and how visual expressions derived from it would be constructed. Also, on the basis of examples from contemporary art, it will investigate the subversive potencies of an aesthetic constructed inside these lines, considering the effects that a proposition of visual relation would have over subjectivity.