Edvard Munch's "The Scream"
How might this painting relate to androids? To humans?
"The painting showed a hairless, oppressed creature with a head like an inverted pear, its hands clapped in horror to its ears, its mouth open in a vast, soundless scream. Twisted ripples of the creature's torment, echoes of its cry, flooded out into the air surrounding it; the man or woman, whichever it was, had become contained by its own howl. It had covered its ears against its own sound. The creature stood on a bridge and no one else was present; the creature screamed in isolation. Cut off by--or despite--its outcry" (114).
Phil Resch says "I think...that this is how an andy must feel" (114).
Luba Luft, the opera singer, is absorbed by a picture of "a young girl, hands clasped together, seated on the edge of a bed, an expression of bewildered wonder and new, groping awe imprinted on the face" (115).
Edvard Munch's "Puberty"
Why is Luba Luft fascinated by this painting?
1 comment:
we had to read chapter 12? i thought we just had to read 10 and 11!
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