1,99 €
Mehr erfahren.
- Herausgeber: FV Éditions
- Kategorie: Religion und Spiritualität
- Sprache: Englisch
Analyzing the career of Michael Jackson, Franck Vidiella questions the sensitive nature of the term "Genius." Based upon a study that confirms that the great geniuses are, nearly in their totality, creative, brilliant, obstinate and multifaceted, each one of the issues are analyzed by studying the career of the Star of Pop, in such a way that they offer elements to answer the following question: Was Michael Jackson an exceptional artist or an absolute Genius? The answer, as you will be able to see, allows a passionate debate.
Das E-Book können Sie in Legimi-Apps oder einer beliebigen App lesen, die das folgende Format unterstützen:
Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2015
Ähnliche
Table of Contents
Page de titre
Preface
Introduction
The Genius has a social dimension
The majority of geniuses share a series of facets
To transfigure the universe
Inspirations and Influence
The Creativity of the King of Pop
A Young Prodigy
The obsession of Childhood
A Brilliant Icon
A sacrificed life
A battle, a madness
Perfectionism and religion of the work
The video-clip revolution
A visionary artist
A multifaceted artist
A genius is product of history
A network of social overlaps
The Icon of a supermodern world
The genius and his environment
A monster in the crossway of two ideotypes
A unique artist, universal work
A review of the elitist concept of genius
NOTES
Bibliography
Conclusion
BONUS / QUOTES by MICHAEL JACKSON
Copyright © 2011 by FV Éditions
Illustrations –pictures © Onésimo Colavidas
Design Colavidas Studio
Translation from Spanish: N.K Jackman-Lansdowne
ISBN-978-2-36668-086-7
All Rights Reserved
Preface
In this essay, the fragile definition of “Genius” is being questioned. Carrying on from a study that demonstrates that the great genius are mostly creative, brilliant, obstinate and multifaceted, each one of these issues is analyzed from the perspective of the King of Pop, in such a way that it provides response elements to the following question: Was Michael Jackson an exceptional artist or an absolute genius?
Introduction
To define a genius is not easy, yet there are a number of definitions. One which we could remember with regard to Michael Jackson refers to the natural aptitude that makes a person capable of creating extraordinary new things. The term genius would therefore be a gift, a natural gift that could not accept the slightest attempt of finding an explanation and would therefore arise from the indescribable. The famed ballet dancer Margot Fonteyn once quoted: “genius is a kind of magic and the secret of magic is that you cannot explain it”. Genius cannot be theorized.
The Genius has a social dimension
From a different perspective, authors such as Claude Thélot1 underline that the only reference to gift to define genius would be limited. This sociologist, choosing a list made up of 350 great Western geniuses, covering the Renaissance up to the year 2000, manages to produce a quantitative sociology of the Western genius2, arriving at the conclusion that historically the attributes of genius have not been distributed in a random way. The presence of genius is therefore not just a random coincidence since some of the constant values can be quantified using statistics. These stats show that only 2 per cent of geniuses are women, 50 per cent come from an accommodated social environment within urban areas and rarely from villages. If the gift alone should authorise a universal definition of genius, essentially being innate, then this should allow the manifestation of genius everywhere, and therefore not being possible to measure it statistically. It should allow, for example, for women to be better represented in the early corpus of the author, or, allow the sons of manual laborers to be more frequently endowed with the attributes of a genius. Based upon these observations, the genius cannot be merely defined by the term gift. On the other hand, if genius and gift can be quantifiable, then Thélot also defines genius in a similar manner, because further afield from the subject of gift, the values he uses to define genius are also subject to social and cultural variations. If it happens that certain geniuses are “self made", in most cases the genius would not have emerged outside his own environment, or outside a social and cultural context that would permit him to grow as such.
The majority of geniuses share a series of facets
The approximation that has been described above holds a double interest with regard to the subject we are interested in, as it allows the sociologist to differentiate, on the one hand, the social conditions that favor the raising of a genius, and on the other hand analyze the common facets which the geniuses of Claude Thélot’s list share, which will help to reach, as close as possible an objective definition of genius. Studying the trajectory of the most illustrious geniuses in eleven different domains that go from the literature up to the science, and reaching the film industry, fro [...]
