Estética de lo repugnante. Posibilidad de la representación estética de lo repugnante en el arte / Aesthetics of the Disgusting. Possibility of the Aesthetic Representation of the Disgusting in Art

Abstract

This work started from the idea that the disgusting in itself can not be art nor, therefore, source of aesthetic pleasure. The objective of this article was the analysis of the most recent theories of disgust and, depending on this, to determine the consequences for a theory or aesthetic categorization of the disgusting. The sources that have been reviewed have allowed to glimpse that the disgust has to do with that constitutive of the human thing or determines it as such, for which there exists an anthropology of disgust. Disgust and revolting have played a very important role in different cultures, in the arts and, consequently, in aesthetics. The methodology used was descriptive, as an instrument was resorted to documentary research based on some theorists of disgust. As a result, it could be established that disgust prevents the danger of excess: by prohibiting contact with the disgusting, this limit and prohibition promise something beautiful and inaccessible. The transgression has something fascinating, but only with safety and absence of damage there is aesthetic pleasure: that pleasure is the consequence of conceiving the sensitive form that the artist, from his work, gives to the disgusting. Being the gross recreated and represented by art, it allows us to explore the unclean by safeguarding humanity through imitation, representation and fiction. It is concluded that, following Colin Mcginn (2016), the pleasure that can offer the disgusting in the field of human and culture is at the mercy of a process of purification and improvement of the artistic work that allows access to its aesthetic form.