...TITU POPESCU THE AESTHETICS OF PARADOXISM (second edition) American Research Press Rehoboth 2002 2... ...) American Research Press Rehoboth 2002 2 Titu Popescu THE AESTHETICS OF PARADOXISM (second edition) Translated from Romanian by P. Georgelin, ... ... ordered in microfilm format from: Bell and Howell Co. (University of Microfilm International) 300 N. Zeeb Road P.O. Box 1346, Ann Arb... ... 297-5092 Printed in the United States of America 4 Foreword In the history of thought and creation, the decisive events, the great and signifi... ...nction disturb anybody. Personification being inevitable in creation, the history of art can be superposed to the history of the authors or, at, lea... ...ed at the redaction office of “Curentul” in Munich a letter sent from the Istanbul camp for political refugees. A small writing, nervous and legible,... ...hase. Gradually, but enough quickly - the impatience of the letter from Istanbul was absolutely incontestable -, the poet’s name took importance i... ...introducing lines. I have recalled the letter arrived at “Curentul” from Istanbul, which changed for some time the course and nature of my readings... ...ose who follow it: “art has proved not only that it is, as is the rule in history, impotent to domesticate the Demon of power, but that it is in cond...

...In the history of thought and creation, the decisive events, the great and significant moments, the strongly affirmative stages - then the imposition of the optimizing novelties - have depended on the name and prestige of a person...

...In aesthetics, the paradox means the apparent resolution of an enigmatic situation (the result of such a process is the satisfaction of a distention), the emotional moving force being the unforeseen, the unexpected (which generates and also perturbs a new tension). Therefore, the...