Oxford Art Journal (2011) - Outscreaming the Laocoön: Sensation, Special Affects, and the Moving Image

Details

• journal article: Outscreaming the Laocoön: Sensation, Special Affects, and the Moving Image
• author(s): Maria H. Loh
• journal: Oxford Art Journal (01/Oct/2011)
• issue: volume 34, issue 3, pages 393-413
• DOI: 10.1093/oxartj/kcr039
• journal ISSN: 0142-6540
• keywords: Alfred Hitchcock, Analyse, Analysis, Anthony Perkins, Bernard Herrmann, British Museum, London, Horreur, Horror, Janet Leigh, Jessica Tandy, Linda Williams, London, England, Marion Crane, Paramount Pictures, Psycho (1960), Romain (art), Roman (style), Sculpteurs, Sculptors, Sculpture, Shamley Productions, Sight and Sound (1994) - Learning to scream, Slavoj Žižek, Technique, The Birds (1963), Universal Studios

ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&ctx_enc=info%3Aofi%2Fenc%3AUTF-8&rfr_id=info:sid/summon.serialssolutions.com&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:journal&rft.genre=article&rft.atitle=Outscreaming+the+Laocoon%3A+Sensation%2C+Special+Affects%2C+and+the+Moving+Image&rft.jtitle=Oxford+Art+Journal&rft.au=Loh%2C+M.+H&rft.date=2011-10-01&rft.issn=0142-6540&rft.eissn=1741-7287&rft.volume=34&rft.issue=3&rft.spage=393&rft.epage=414&rft_id=info:doi/10.1093%2Foxartj%2Fkcr039&rft.externalDBID=n%2Fa&rft.externalDocID=10_1093_oxartj_kcr039

Links

• Google Scholar
• DOI.org

Abstract

First there is sensation : the coldness of dirt on a wintry Roman day; shovel hitting stone; and the startled confrontation with a frozen howl. Then there is affect: cognition; analysis; transformation; and containment. Finally, there is the moving image that results from this chance encounter. This essay examines the uneasy spectre of the ancient Roman sculptural group of "Laocoön and his sons" in its immediate moment of discovery in 1506 as well as its subsequent return in the art of Titian and Poussin. On the one hand, the discussion will be concerned with the visceral intensity that rips through the body of the spectator in the moment of confrontation; on the other hand, it will examine the eruptions that surface from this merging of ancient and modern identities. The former thinks about reception and the immediacy of aesthetic experience; the latter takes a more diachronic approach, wandering through a historical landscape of artistic actions and reactions. [Publication abstract]