Dimas Agil Saputra
Nama : Dimas Agil Saputra Npm: 202146500929 Kelas:R3L Dosen: Angga kusuma Dawami, M.SN Beauty and evil Beauty and Evil The Case of Leni Riefenstahl Mary Devereaux Excerpted from Aesthetics and Ethics: Essays at the Intersection, Jerrold Levinson, ed., Cambridge University Press (1998). Reprinted by permission of the publisher. Leni Riefenstahl’s documentary of the 1934 Nuremberg rally of the National Socialist German Workers’ Party, Triumph of the Will, is perhaps the most controversial film ever made. At once masterful and morally repugnant, this deeply troubling film epitomizes a general problem that arises with art. It is both beautiful and evil. I shall argue that it is this conjunction of beauty and evil that explains why the film is so disturbing. ... Much has been written on the formal features of Riefenstahl’s art. What has not been generally appreciated is that the film’s artistic achievement is not merely structural or formal. Equally im