Open AccessTHE BODY IN THE HISTORY OF WESTERN EUROPEAN AND RUSSIAN THEATRE: CULTURAL VARIABILITY OF SHAME
Author(s) -
Leila F. Salimova
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
artikulʹt
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2227-6165
DOI - 10.28995/2227-6165-2021-1-19-31
Subject(s) - shame , performing arts , aesthetics , empathy , phenomenon , face (sociological concept) , character (mathematics) , the arts , visual arts , psychology , art , sociology , history , social psychology , epistemology , philosophy , social science , geometry , mathematics
Modern scientific knowledge approaches the study of the physical and aesthetic bodies with a considerable body of texts. However, on the territory of the theater, the body is still considered exclusively from the point of view of the actor's artistic tools. Theatrical physicality and the character of physical empathy in the theater are not limited to the boundaries of the performing arts, but exist in close relationship with the visual and empirical experience of the spectator, performer, and director. The aesthetic and ethical aspect of the attitude to the body in the history of theatrical art has repeatedly changed, including under the influence of changing cultural criteria of "shameful". The culmination of the demarcation of theatrical shame, it would seem, should be an act of pure art, independent of the moral restrictions of society. However, the experiments of modern theater continue to face archaic ethical views. The article attempts to understand the cultural variability of such a phenomenon as shame in its historical and cultural extent using examples from theater art from antiquity to the present day.