In this image (watching sensual murder through a peephole) Lorrain embodies the criminal delight of decadent art. The watcher who records the crimes (both the artist and consumer of art) is constructed as marginal, powerless to act, and so exculpated from action, passive subject of a complex pleasure, condemning and yet enjoying suffering imposed on others, and condemning himself for his own enjoyment. In this masochistic celebration of disempowerment, the sharpest pleasure recorded is that of the death of some important part of humanity. The dignity of human life is the ultimate victim of Lorrain's art, thrown away on a welter of delighted self-disgust.
Jennifer BirkettTags: murder decadence artists masochism consumer decadent voyeurism diginty disempowerment self-disgust
Free yourself from the inauthenticity and disempowerment of your story.
Steve MaraboliTags: motivational life success authenticity story disempowerment
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