María Zambrano: Europe's Face and the "Dark Night of the Human"
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https://doi.org/10.1344/Lectora2018.24.6Keywords:
María Zambrano, destrucción de las formas, 20th-century European art, cubism, informalism, traumaAbstract
This article draws attention to the importance of María Zambrano’s essay "La destrucción de las formas" (1944) as a precedent for informalist art, and it also analyzes Zambrano’s interpretation of the notions of physis and the mask as key elements to the understanding of European abstraction after the Second World War. In the "Dark Night of the Human" Zambrano suggests that the world becomes, as T.S. Eliot also notes in Four Quartets, a lonely place that descends towards a reunion with humanity and the unprecedented possibilities of the word.
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