List of topics I can talk about.....

The ugly in art and image

Beauty

Crisis of beauty in art and imagery

Death in art and image : representations of death

Evil

The impossible in art and literature

The monstruous

Excitement, suspense and human relations : Hitchcock and Hopper

The inhuman in art and culture

The sublime

The abject (Kristeva, Bataille)

Erotism

Georges Bataille

David Lynch : Lost highway, madness and film noir

Transgression (G. Bataille) in culture, art and imagery

Voyeurism in culture, voyeurism and surveillance-society

The look and theatrical staging in western culture : the world as a theatre spectacle

The look and power

The look in western culture : genealogical approach (M. Foucault)

Death and the sacred through a comparative study of 'Death of Marat' (David) and photographs of Che Guevara (Alborta and Korda)

Disgust: In culture, art/aesthetics

Death

Symbols of death : skull, corpse, skeletons, photographs of ancestors

Memento mori and Vanitas : human vulnerability, frailty in art and imagery

Horror

The Corpse as an experience of death and as an element of art and popular culture

Cannibalism : anthropological and philosophical, in popular image (movies)

Violence and art/imagery

Holocaust and representation in art and popular culture

Genocide and art

Death and heroism in art: making sacred

The sacred in art : past and present

Religion and violence

The female nude from Renaissance to impressionism to Madame Edwarda (G. Bataille)

(Re)presentations of the body in art and popular culture

What is an image?

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…and a lot of other disturbing and alienating topics from a historical and philosophical point of view.

Can be brought in Dutch, English or French.

If you have a topic in mind that is not in this list but touches on some items in the list….you can always contact me and ask : dmtrgoossens@gmail.com