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Title:

Contemporary art and classical myth / edited by Isabelle Loring Wallace and Jennie Hirsh.

Publisher:

Ashgate,

Copyright Date:

c2011

Description:

xviii, 376 p., [16] p. of chiefly col. plates : ill. ; 26 cm.

Subject:

Art and mythology
Mythology, Classical, in art
Art, Modern--20th century--Themes, motives
Art, Modern--21st century--Themes, motives.

Other Authors:

Wallace, Isabelle Loring.
Hirsh, Jennie.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

ISBN:

0754669742 (hardcover : alk. paper)
9780754669746 (hardcover : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)640515432

LCCN:

2010024205

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)