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“ACCOMMODATION IN THE ABYSS” AS A GAME OF REPRESENTATIONS: MISE EN ABYME IN D. VELASQUEZ’S “LAS MENINAS”

Bolshakova Anastasia Sergeevna  (Federal State Budgetary Educational Institution of Higher Education «Tula State Lev Tolstoy Pedagogical University»)

The article proposes an interpretation of Diego Velazquez's painting by the Spanish painter "Las Meninas" as a phenomenon of introspection, in which the observer (viewer contemplating the canvas) gets the opportunity to reconstruct the image of his Self, to look at it from a different angle. The concept of misanabim, a recursive artistic technique, literally translated as “accommodation in the abyss”, in this case is not “a picture in a picture”, but “a game in a game”. Velasquez's work is a process of creating a (self) representation, reminiscent of a psychotherapeutic session in which the artist who portrays himself is a doctor, and anyone looking at the work acts as a patient - it is a kind of game of escaping reality, a game controlled, guided. Control by the authorities (personified in the picture by the figure of the chamberlain-supervisor in the background), constant surveillance deprive the subject of identity, thereby making the free activity of the game relative.

Keywords:Game, misanabim, D. Velasquez "Las Meninas", self-image, self-representation, observation
 

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Citation link:
Bolshakova A. S. “ACCOMMODATION IN THE ABYSS” AS A GAME OF REPRESENTATIONS: MISE EN ABYME IN D. VELASQUEZ’S “LAS MENINAS” // Современная наука: актуальные проблемы теории и практики. Серия: Познание. -2023. -№03. -С. 118-121 DOI 10.37882/2500-3682.2023.03.05
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