Abstract
Film, dramaturgy and literature exhibit increasingly more episodes of cruelty in the interactions between the characters. With its focus on the core ideas about escalation of violence, this paper examines the fundamental reasons for the upsurge in depictions of violence in art. The article demonstrates social, cultural and anthropological factors contributed to shaping the technosphere which impedes the comprehension of the relationship and the contrast between life and death. Without this comprehension, a cultural dysfunction entails the existential crisis, hinders feeling fully alive, and provokes a “safe” virtual way to generate a limit situation that restores “life’s integrity” experience. Art that demonstrates violent scenes is one of these methods. In addition, and this is the first paper to analyze this, the extensive type of creativity dominates the postindustrial society culture. Research demonstrates that extensive creativity does not contain an ethical component and nor foster immunity to violence. On the contrary, by directing an individual towards exploring and transforming the external world, it provokes violence, since the nature of expansion is a priori forced. The authors conclude that escalation of violence in art testifies to the deficit of cultural methods that allow to satisfy a person’s existential needs.
Highlights
Pragmatic issues of aggression and violence have been the object of recent Englishlanguage research in medicine, psychiatry and psychology (Tzavaras, Krasanakis, & Giannoulaki, 2013; McNally, 2002), education (Addison, 2011), gender (Corcoran & Lane, 2018; Fobear, 2017), and cultural (Anderson Hudson & Wadkins, 1988) studies
Being an aesthetic object in the art of the times past, violence had not extended to naturalism in accordance with the aesthetic distancing nature of artistic reality
Classical aesthetics prohibited making suffering to look naturalistic, as it is linked with aggression in one shape or another, was through the aesthetic substantiation of the ideal of beauty
Summary
Similar to a mirror that reflects the one looking at it, contemporary art (CA), if we agree with the definition given to it by Oscar Wilde (2000), portrays a society where various forms of. Psychologists, social scientists, art experts, scholars of ethics, aesthetics, and cultural studies discuss this tendency of the escalating violence and its impact, ways of countering violence and assisting the victims. Few scholars have conceptualized the origins of growing scale of violence. Lee claims that symbolic human nature stipulates for the ability of art and religion to become a powerful means to express violence which are abundant in symbols that play a determinative role in cognitive and emotional development (2016, p. 153)
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