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Myths
Overview:
• What
is
a
‘myth’?
• Why
has
myth
been
so
important
in
Art
History?
• Does
mythology
still
play
an
important
part
in
contemporary
society
and
art?
Images:
The
Jupiter
de
Smyrne
1680
Titan
‘The
Rape
of
Europa’
1562
Gianlorenzo
Bernini:
Apollo
and
Daphne,
1622–4
Picasso’s
Woman
in
a
Garden
1929
Kiki
Smith,
Daphne,
1993
Pablo
Picasso,
Minotauromachy
1935
Salvador
Dalí:
Metamorphosis
of
Narcissus,
1937
Kiefer’s
Germany’s
Spiritual
Heroes
1973
Leo
von
Klenze’s
Valhalla
temple
1830-‐32
Joseph
Beuys
‘Terremoto’
1981
Joseph
Beuys
‘I
Like
America
and
America
Like
Me’
(1974)
Matthew
Barney
The
Cremaster
Cycle
1994-‐2004
Matthew
Barney
Drawing
Restraint
1987-‐present
Matthew
Barney
‘River
of
Fundament’
2014
Gabriela
Fridriksdottir
‘Inside
the
Core’
2006
Gabriela
Fridriksdottir
‘Ouroboros’
2007
Magnús
Arnason
Benedikt’s
Metamorphosis
(2005)
Readings:
Barney,
M.
and
A.
C.
Danto,
“Blood
&
Iron,”
Modern
Painters,
September
2006,
p.
62.
Barthes,
R.,
‘Myth
Today’
(1957)
in
Mythologies
(London:
Vintage,
1993),
pp.109-‐159.
Buchloh,
B.
‘Beuys:
The
Twilight
of
the
Idol’,
in
G.
Ray,
ed.,
Joseph
Beuys:
Mapping
the
Legacy
(New
York,
2001)
Bull,
M.,
The
Mirror
of
the
Gods:
Classical
Mythology
in
Renaissance
Art
(London:
Penguin,
2006).
Hall,
J.,
Hall’s
Dictionary
of
Subjects
and
Symbols
in
Art
(John
Murray,
1989)
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Lauterwein,
Andrea,
Anselm
Kiefer/Paul
Celan:
Myth,
Mourning
and
Memory
(London:
Thames
&
Hudson,
2007)
Wallace,
Isabelle
&
Hirsh,
Jennie
(eds.),
Contemporary
Art
and
Classical
Myth
(Farnham:
Ashgate,
2011)
Ziolkowski,
Theodore,
Minos
and
the
Moderns:
Cretan
Myth
in
Twentieth-‐Century
Literature
and
Art
(London:
Oxford
University
Press,
2008).
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