War, Art and the New Experience of the Crowd

DOI

10.2991/icadce-17.2017.9How to use a DOI?

Keywords

crowd mythology; the crowd as a machine; art; collective bodies; rhythm; ornament

Abstract

The paper deals with a new turn occurred in crowd mythology on the eve of the First World War. The crowd now becomes not merely an object under observation. The crowd of society, or "diffused crowd", transforms into material that is organised and formalised. The new image of the organised and regulated crowd gradually squeezes out the earlier images of spontaneous, criminal and uncontrollable crowds. Instead of crowds shown through the metaphors of the stormy fire or water elements, as scary monsters or an eerie insect, there appears a new range of associations, including the crowd as a machine, a controlled mechanism.

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© 2017, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Ekaterina Bobrinskaya
PY  - 2017/05
DA  - 2017/05
TI  - War, Art and the New Experience of the Crowd
BT  - Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Arts, Design and Contemporary Education (ICADCE 2017)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 49
EP  - 54
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/icadce-17.2017.9
DO  - 10.2991/icadce-17.2017.9
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