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Contemporary art and classical myth / edited by Isabelle Loring Wallace and Jennie Hirsh.
LIBRA N7760 .C65 2011
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Art and mythology.
- Mythology, Classical, in art.
- Art, Modern--20th century--Themes, motives.
- Art, Modern.
- Themes, motives.
- Art, Modern--21st century--Themes, motives.
- Physical Description:
- xviii, 376 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of chiefly color plates : illustrations ; 26 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Farnham, Surrey ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2011]
- Summary:
- This is a stimulating and provocative collection of 14 essays on the broad theme announced in the title, and the studies also encompass the broader theme of classical myth and the visual arts "writ large," as the editors state in the preface. The complex inter-relationship is obviously pervasive and yet, egregiously unexplored--in terms of reasons for its endurance over time and "the particular frisson that results from myth's translation into myriad visual forms." Fourteen contributions address particular artists and works of art, and particular myths. The book is elegantly produced and includes a section of color plates as well as numerous b&w photos to support the text. Isabelle Loring Wallace and Jennie Hirsh are contemporary art scholars affiliated, respectively, with U. of Georgia and the Maryland Institute College of Art. Annotation ©2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
- Contents:
- Prologue. Faraway, so close: mythic origins, contemporary art / Lisa Saltzman
- Myth as meaning. A poetics of becoming: the mythography of Cy Twombly / Craig Staff
- Art is glimpsed / Sharon Hecker
- Narcissus, narcosis, neurosis: the visions of Yayoi Kusama / Jody B. Cutler
- The porous space of Bracha Ettinger's Eurydices (1992-2001) / Marisa B. Vigneault
- Double take: reflections on Felix Gonzalez-Torres / Jennie Hirsh
- Myth as medium. Lichtenstein's Narcissus / Graham Bader
- Philomela as metaphor: sexuality, pornography, seduction / Giulia Lamoni
- Icarus returned: visual testimony and the falling man / Sharon Sliwinski
- Deep shit / Isabelle Loring Wallace
- Myth as method. A new Parrhasius: Duane Hanson's uncanny realism / Elizabeth Mansfield
- Over and over, again and again / Emma Cocker
- Video art in the House of Hades / Sophie-Isabelle Dufour
- Epilogue. The sphinx unwinds her own sweet self / Joanna Frueh.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Class of 1924 Book Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9780754669746
- 0754669742
- OCLC:
- 640515432
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