«LA COMÉDIE» DES VALEURS ESTHÉTIQUES CHEZ JEAN TARDIEU
«The comedy» of aesthetic values in Jean Tardieu

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Summary/Abstract: Culture and arts are currently facing the same disorder and the same paradoxes that govern thepost-industrial universe. The keynote of modernism, namely that one which insists on theuniqueness of the work of art and its quality of value and human wisdom depository, is seen to bedethroned by the postmodernists. To assure the art that it has the role of social panacea (as anengaged art, for instance) and of modal panacea (the catharsis) means to weaken its health andTardieu does nothing but constantly warns the spectator about the danger of self-deluding, as thespectator is imprisoned in these pernicious preconceptions. Tardieu’s theatre signals, together withthe works of art claiming to be postmodernist, the end of the “great art” as founding paradigm ofhumanity while submitting it to a process of demythologizing which concerns progress, family andespecially the art as human being’s redeemer.

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