Open AccessArt, Myth and Memory
Author(s) -
Alessandra Campoli
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
visual review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2695-9631
DOI - 10.37467/gka-revvisual.v7.2647
Subject(s) - mythology , relation (database) , contemporary art , power (physics) , collective memory , aesthetics , visual arts , art , sociology , literature , art history , computer science , performance art , law , political science , physics , quantum mechanics , database
This paper aims at investigating the relationship between collective and cultural memory, myth, and contemporary art practice. Artists in the past have relied on the power of myth to visually speak to their audience, re-presenting myths in an illusionistic way. Today art is not conventionally telling stories anymore and is disentangled from the need for mimesis. How has the relation between art and myth changed outside the framework of representational art? Is the connection between myth and collective and cultural memory used in contemporary art practice? How do art and myth intersect today?