Hi
bloggers, today I’m going to talk about a book I’ve read this year. I have to apologize
because I don’t use to read so much. The book is “Brevario de estética teatral”
de Bertolt Brecht, it’s a academic book that resume some ideas about stetics
created by the autor, divided in less than 100 paragraphs.
I
enjoyed learning about her concept of “extrañamiento”, that consists in
consider that in the artistical performance, all the objects, process and
beings, have a side known by the audience, and other side unknown; In this
contrast, he maintain that occurs the esthetic appreciation, the reflexive act
and the intuitive-emotional experience. For me that’s interesting, because it’s
possible apply it to transdisciplinar art, like music with theater, holding
hermeneutic procedures to develop the construction of the artistical discourse that
pretend be understood by a massive audience that no require to be erudite in
arts. This art is constructed from the beginning to be comprehensible.
Returning
to the book. The ideas written by Brecht are categorical, synthetic and
reproducible. Obviously that’s the purpose off the book, give the readers a new
perspective about how art can be done, giving some strategies and pillars to
construct art.
Personally
I consider that the book was written with a violent and dogmatic redaction,
perhaps could be better to talk about ideas redacting them in a proposal and non-persuasive
way, giving the reader the opportunity to enjoy a new idea without been intellectually,
politically and ideologically attacked. I say this because I felled it reading
the book, but, independently of the redaction, it was one of the best books I’ve
read in my life. You can obtain for free at
theater faculty of university of Chile.
