TY  - CHAP
A1  - Gaderer, Rupert
T1  - Strategies of tension : A. Boissier's "Les amants électrisés par l'amour" (1797)
T2  - Tension/Spannung / ed. by Christoph F. E. Holzhey. - Wien : Turia + Kant 2010. - (Cultural Inquiry ; 1) - ISBN 978-3-85132-616-1
N2  - The article analyses A. Boissier's image "Les Amants électrisés par l'amour" in view of the larger question of how something is able to arouse interest on first sight, but also in repeat encounters. Highlighting the engraving's didactic iconography, the article shows how it revolves around the solution to a riddle and uses a typical design of the Enlightenment to show the uncovering of a deception. As such, the engraving is part of a long tradition of showing (supposedly) supernatural events, more specifically the tradition of Magia naturalis. At the same time, the image contains dissonances and can be seen to simulate suspense through dichotomies that can be identified as antagonistic historical concepts. The article furthermore discusses the amalgamation of love and electricity in contemporary discourses and addresses the temporal dimension of the engraving, which constructs itself out of an absence, out of something yet unseen.
KW  - Boissier, A.
KW  - Boissier, A.: Les amants électrisés par l'amour
KW  - Spannung
KW  - Elektrizität
KW  - Wissenschaft
KW  - Geschichte 1750-1800
KW  - Wissenschaftsgeschichte
KW  - Aufklärung
KW  - Liebe <Motiv>
KW  - Tension
KW  - Electricity
KW  - Love
KW  - History of science
KW  - Enlightenment
Y1  - 2019
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/51410
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-514103
UR  - https://www.ici-berlin.org/oa/ci-01/gaderer_strategies-of-tension.pdf
SN  - 978-3-85132-616-1
SP  - 93
EP  - 108
PB  - Turia + Kant
CY  - Wien
ER  -