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Lee, Chanju. "Birth and Women in Mythology." Digital Archive @ GSU, 2008. http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/art_design_theses/35.
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The Birth is a multi-media video installation inspired by my personal experiences of a miscarriage and the births of my two children. The work is influenced by the mythologies found in Korean culture that focus on the mother figure as a ¡°Great Mother¡±. She is an ¡°ideal woman¡±, a ¡°good mother¡± and a ¡°sincere wife¡±. Working abstractly across the media of painting, video, digital animation, and the paintings of my son, The Birth exploits metaphors and symbols, to tell the story of women, especially the stories of mothers. The work speaks to motherly love and my own identity as an artist and a mother.
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Vollkommer, Rainer. "Herakles in the art of classical Greece." Oxford : Oxford University Committee for Archaeology, 1988. http://books.google.com/books?id=ur2fAAAAMAAJ.
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Robinson, Scott E. (Scott Elmon) 1961. "Dichotomy in American Western Mythology." Thesis, University of North Texas, 1991. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc500528/.
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The fundamental dichotomy between savage and civilized man is examined within the archetypal Western myth of American culture. The roots of the dichotomy are explored through images produced between 1888 and 1909 by artists Frederic Remington and Charles Russell. Four John Ford films are then used as a basis for the "dichotomous archetype" approach to understanding Western myth in film. Next, twenty-nine "historical" and "contemporary" Western movies are discussed chronologically, from The Virginian (1929) to Dances with Wolves (1990), in terms of the savage/civilized schema as it is personified by the roles of archetypal characters. The conclusion proposes a potential resolution of the savage/civilized conflict through an ecumenical mythology that recognizes a universal reverence for nature.
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Winch, Lauren. "Metabolism, mythology, magic or metaphor? : animals in the rock art of Thailand." Thesis, University of Bristol, 2013. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.658567.
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A common feature of many rock art corpora is the inclusion of animals, both naturalistic and fantastical. For a long time it was assumed that animals in the art simply related to actual or desired prey species. In recent decades, however, research has increasingly revealed rock art to be full of subtle nuances, mythological phenomena, multifaceted magic and potency, and metaphorical references to various aspects of society and culture. In line with this burgeoning interest in the multiplicities inherent within rock art, the central aim of this thesis is to examine which animals feature in the rock art of Thailand and why. Evidence outlined in this thesis suggests that the rock art of Thailand was created almost exclusively within the last 4000 years and consists of anthropomorphic figures, wild animal species, domesticated animals, geometrics and boats. This thesis explores the specific social and environmental contexts of rock art in Thailand alongside considerations gleaned from rock art research in other parts of the world, and uses this in the analysis of data gathered during primary fieldwork in May-July 2011. Fieldwork was conducted in two study regions: the southern peninsula and inland mountains. The key conclusion of this research project is that metabolic, mythological, magical and metaphorical considerations all played a part in the inception of prehistoric rock art in Thailand in different and often complimentary ways. Another important deduction is that the notions of personal and collective identity permeate both the inland and peninsula datasets, albeit idiosyncratically manifested through alternative methods of literal and metaphorical representation. Fieldwork findings and secondary sources suggest that the rock art was most likely produced by communities who were predominantly hunter-gatherer-fishers who may have also practiced a certain degree of mixed subsistence strategies. Domesticated animals appear to be absent from the painted record of the peninsula region yet dominate the faunal repertoire of the inland sites; alongside archaeological evidence from the two regions from the period between 5,000-2,000 BP I therefore conclude that the peninsula painting communities had a subsistence economy which continued to be more strongly centred on hunter-gatherer lifeways than their inland counterparts in the face of expanding agricultural practices in Southeast Asia.
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Dipla, Anthi. "Images of revolt : women of myth in the art of classical Athens." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1998. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.297329.
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Kelly, Ann Therese. "Contemporary truths through creation-centered mythology: a visual thought process /." Online version of thesis, 1991. http://hdl.handle.net/1850/11292.
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Walker, Kathleen. "Chasing the Dragon's Tale: Europe's Fascination and Representation of the Dragon from the Twelfth to the Seventeenth Century." Kent State University / OhioLINK, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1437605968.
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Rhea, Jonthan P. "THE NEOTERICS A PANTHEON FOR THE 21ST CENTURY." OpenSIUC, 2016. https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/theses/1897.
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My thesis work explores the spiritual embodiments of 21st century culture by creating a set/series of sights, sounds and other sensory experiences that are symbolically representative of a new pantheon called The Neoterics and its mythology. It examines the human quest for stability (survival, community, and mental/physical/ financial stability) in a world of constant change. The exhibition introduces the six members of the pantheon as the embodiments of the primitive or basic needs, contemporary wants, and future desires of humanity, at least from the perspective of Westernized culture. This paper looks at mythology’s role in the 21st century. It examines the artistic process of creating and representing mythological entities in the gallery and museum space. It peers through the lenses of the literary theory of ‘carrier bag fiction’ and the theory of the artistic gifts in relationship to the exhibition. Finally concluding with where this new mythology might go as it expands and grows in the future.
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Zhang, Ting. "Alfred Bruyas : the mythology and practice of art collecting and patronage in nineteenth-century France." Thesis, University of Sussex, 1996. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.247778.
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Sun, Linda. "Translocation this thesis is submitted to the Auckland University of Technology in partial fulfilment of the degree of Master of Arts (Art and Design) in the year 2004." Full thesis. Abstract, 2004.
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Prokop, Carol Ann. "Written in stone : a comparative analysis of Sedna and the Moon Spirit as depicted in contemporary Inuit sculpture and graphics." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 1990. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/29052.
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Traditional mythological themes have been repeatedly depicted in contemporary Inuit art since the late 1950s. This thesis examines the portrayals of the female sea spirit or Sedna and the male moon spirit in sculpture and graphics by contemporary Inuit artists from three Arctic art "communities": Baker Lake, Cape Dorset and Povungnituk. Analysis of the mythological depictions has led me to conclude that artists have tended to employ two distinct styles of illustration to represent these deities. These two types are iconic and narrative. Introduced by the first generation of contemporary Inuit artists working in the late 1950s these types functioned as tangible expressions of the unique nature and role of each deity in Inuit culture as these were perceived by the Inuit artists, and involved a complicated process of integrating both traditional and "alien" elements. Subsequent generations of artists have retained these prototypes and continued to incorporate elements based on these two influences. The complex evolution of Sedna and Moon Spirit imagery reflects the role contemporary Inuit mythological art has come to play as both a medium of communication to non-Inuit and a historical and cultural repository for the Inuit.Arts, Faculty of
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Roos, Bonnie. "Reviving Pygmalion : art, life and the figure of the statue in the modernist period /." view abstract or download file of text, 2001. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/uoregon/fullcit?p3045092.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Oregon, 2001.Typescript. Includes vita and abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 277-283). Also available for download via the World Wide Web; free to University of Oregon users.
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Pierce, Karen. "Images of Argive Helen from birth to death." Thesis, University of Wales Trinity Saint David, 2004. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.683213.
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Uzelac, Gregory Ross. "Harnessing the Myths of Now: Restoring Social Harmony Through Mythic Art." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2022. https://hdl.handle.net/2123/27724.
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This thesis explores contemporary art’s role in the rejuvenation of mythic storytelling, which enables societal cohesion and progress. I investigate Joseph Campbell’s concept of mythic dissociation and outline the industrial, academic, and ideological factors that have stifled myth in modernity. Synthesising the mythological scholarship of Campbell and Alexander Eliot with Japanese artist Takashi Murakami’s Superflat Theory, I examine the unique position the contemporary artist now holds in digital-age society as cultivator of myth. I posit that Superflat’s emphasis on narrative interpretation, viewer agency, and opposition to formal, temporal, and stylistic limitations allows for artwork that executes the functions of myth put forward by Campbell and Eliot. I provide evidence of key, practical methodology that allows for contemporary mythic artwork.
Ultimately this thesis advocates for the restoration of mythic narrative to its crucial societal role as a mechanism for social harmony via the production and dissemination of mythic art.
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My body of work entitled Song of @Merica consists of mixed media artworks that depict a modern mythic saga. The exhibition was installed at the University of Sydney in December 2021.
I created works on canvas, plastic, and paper using a variety of materials including acrylic paint, oil pastels, ink, pencil, and watercolour. Aesthetically, my artwork connects to abstract expressionist and surrealist lineages, but my technique also derives from screenwriting, adjoining metaphorical and narrative elements to colour, contour, material, and text. Conceptually integral, my use of nonlinear narrative, repurposed materials, as well as the mixing of media, language, and reappropriated cultural references, illustrates the effectiveness of Takashi Murakami’s Superflat Theory, which explodes defined aesthetic and temporal boundaries, enabling myth to be conveyed fully and accessible to all.
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Augustin, Babette Gabriele. "Mysterium tremendum et fascinans /." Online version of thesis, 1989. http://hdl.handle.net/1850/11518.
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Crosby, Nancy A. "Shifting reality /." Online version of thesis, 1992. http://hdl.handle.net/1850/11760.
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West, Katie. "A Space for the Contemplation of a Sacred Subject." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2015. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/5792.
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This paper discusses a Fine Art Master thesis exhibition. The show was on the topic of the Latter-day Saint doctrine of a Mother in Heaven. It contains a project statement detailing the theological meanings and reasons, an overview of the visual elements of the exhibition, and a section contextualizing the exhibition within the art world.
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Haughton, Ann. "Mythology and masculinity : a study of gender, sexuality and identity in the art of the Italian Renaissance." Thesis, University of Warwick, 2014. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/68267/.
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The concerns of this thesis are aligned with approaches to the historical study of sexuality, gender and identity in art, society and culture which are increasingly articulate and questioning at present. However, it is distinct from these recent studies because it redirects attention toward a stimulating encounter with the past through new theoretical proposals and interpretive perspectives on the manner in which mythology asserts itself as the vehicle for expressing male same-sex erotic behaviour, gender performance and masculine identity in the visual culture of the Italian Renaissance. By following a methodological, historiographical and interdisciplinary mode of enquiry, this thesis formulates and expresses new perspectives which engage with the representation of masculine concerns relating to these historically specific matters in the visual domain of the period. Conventional historical definitions of traditional art historical models of masculinity are also called into question through reassessment of how the function of the ideal male nude body in Renaissance art was shaped by particular social and historical contexts in different regions of Italy during the sixteenth century. These interrelated themes are approached in three stages. Firstly, there is interpretation of the complex and convoluted meanings within the narrative of the mythic sources, as well as decoding and contextualising of the symbolic messages of the images in question. Secondly, I assemble and examine the textual evidence that exists about erotic and social relationships between males in the Renaissance so that their historical significance can be tracked and placed in the context of the tension which existed between Renaissance Italian judicial and religious proscription and commonplace behaviour. And thirdly, I offer comprehensive analyses and interpretive frameworks which are informed by and based upon a wide range of written as well as visual sources together with evaluation of competing theoretical perceptions. The main arguments are presented in three chapters: The central theme of Chapter One is gender performance with specific focus upon the integral and didactic role of pederasty in visual representations of myths which conflate erotic desire between males and philosophical allegory. The historical phenomenon of pederastic relationships between males is addressed through interrogation of the pictorial vocabulary of Benvenuto Cellini’s marble Apollo and Hyacinth (1545), and Giulio Romano’s drawing of Apollo and Cyparissus (1524).The arguments and theories discussed and analysed in Chapter Two deal with Michelangelo’s depiction of Ovidian mythic narratives. Here, close attention is paid to the intricate nuances and sophisticated iconography used by Michelangelo for three highly finished presentation drawings - The Rape of Ganymede (1532), The Punishment of Tityus (1532) and The Fall of Phaeton (1533) - which Michelangelo presented to Tommaso De’ Cavalieri. The chapter aims to encourage a re-evaluation of these three drawings as a meaningful and connected narrative endowed with significant cultural and personal significance relating to their creator’s anguish about physical desire and its relationship to what modernity terms as ‘sexuality’. In Chapter Three, I consider how several works featuring the theme of Apollo flaying Marsyas can be read as articulations of the imaginative and ideological structures of the formation and preservation of masculine identities. The chapter addresses the iconographic visibility of the theme of flaying and explores the philosophical and literary metaphoric significance of this myth. Primacy is given to destabilising dominant conceptualizations of the heroic male nude as a subject in art throughout all these selected case studies. Centred as they are on sexual attraction or destruction rather than idealisation of the male figure, these chapters offer a revaluation of ways of seeing the archetypal heroic nude in a myriad of ways.
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Servadei, Cristina. "La figura di Theseus nella ceramica attica : iconografia e iconologia del mito nell'Atene arcaica e classica /." Bologna : Ante Quem, 2005. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb40201611c.
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Texte remanié de: Tesi di dottorato--Archeologia--Padova--Università degli studi, 1997.La p. de titre porte en plus : "Alma mater studiorum, Università di Bologna, Dipartimento di archeologia" Bibliogr. p. 217-234.
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Myssok, Johannes Canova Antonio. "Antonio Canova : die Erneuerung der klassischen Mythen in der Kunst um 1800 /." Petersberg : Imhof, 2007. http://deposit.d-nb.de/cgi-bin/dokserv?id=2898498&prov=M&dok_var=1&dok_ext=htm.
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Mance-Coniglio, Melissa. "Falling mythologies /." Online version of thesis, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/1850/7750.
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wolf, roger. "ADAPTIVE TECHNOMYTHOGRAPHY: THE APOTHEOSIS OF MACHINE AND DEVELOPMENT OF LEGEND IN A SYSTEM OF DYNAMIC TECHNOLOGY." Master's thesis, University of Central Florida, 2007. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETD/id/2461.
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Human beings will effectively deify any suitably complex system that cannot be explained through basic haptic interaction. Our culture loves technology. These days it seems we need it to feel whole. In an effort to explore the development of mythology and modular aesthetic in a technological age I have designed and constructed a number of interactive robotic 'organisms' to engage in arbitrary movement in geometric enclosures. Through observation and dialog I seek to assess the extent to which people assign human characteristics to the random and oft times aberrant mechanical behavior. To supplement this endeavor, a fictional astrological system that proposes logical (albeit mythological) explanations for the peculiarities in these relationships has been created.M.F.A.
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Van, Fleet Alan. "The Hero's Journey." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2015. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd/246.
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My ongoing series of assemblages are an expression my modern mythology through the juxtaposition of esoteric symbols and my collection of beloved action figures. Though myth is founded in partial truths and allegories, it has the unique capability to speak about our relationships to one another and the universe. My artwork conceives of anime, comics, and videos games as part of our contemporary mythology.
Inspired by a fusion of pop culture and spirituality, I also draw on the magical properties attributed to flowers, gemstones and other materials to create shrines, altars, and other objects. Juxtaposing these properties, found in my research of esotericism and mythology, with action figures establishes symbolic connections that act as an interface to the spiritual symbolism explored in each piece.
The collision of masking tape, shoe polish, flowers; gemstones and repurposed objects result in re-contextualizations of characters from popular culture. My practice suggests new possibilities for cultural symbolism reflective of my own unique experiences and values and as an active expression of creative freedom in our experiences of the divine. My assemblages re-examine traditional categorizations in art and culture, such as sacred and profane and high and low, while attempting to demystify the veil that separates the experiential from the transcendent.
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Goutain, Pauline. "Les mythologies matérielles de l'Art Brut (1945-1976) : dimensions, processus créateurs et matériaux à l'œuvre." Thesis, Paris 10, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017PA100059.
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L'Art Brut est un concept inventé par le peintre français Jean Dubuffet en 1945 pour désigner des œuvres faites par des artistes non professionnels, autodidactes et isolés en contextes rural, psychiatrique voire carcéral. De 1947 à 1976, avec l'aide de la Compagnie de l'Art Brut, il collecta, présenta et documenta ces œuvres dans le but de remettre en question le goût et les valeurs de son époque. Faites le plus souvent à partir de médias non achetés dans des commerces d'art, leur matérialité questionne les catégories artistiques, les pratiques conventionnelles de l'art, ainsi que l'accrochage muséal.Cette thèse s'attache à montrer en quoi le processus créateur, les matériaux, et les dimensions des œuvres collectées par Dubuffet et ses compagnons ont servi à construire un « mythe », au sens barthien du terme, dans le contexte de l'après Seconde Guerre mondiale. Nous montrons que les matériaux « pauvres », les formats extrêmes – très petits, très grands, informes – ont supporté l'idée fantasmatique d'un art « brut », « hors-norme », « anti-culturel » et « autre ». Notre travail réinscrit, d'autre part, le projet de l'Art Brut dans l'histoire des avant-gardes dans le but d'en montrer la spécificité et la portée politique. Nous mettons enfin en avant en quoi les formats des œuvres collectées ont amené à une réforme de l'espace muséal. La Collection de l'Art Brut, ouverte en 1976 et conçue spécifiquement en fonction de la matérialité des œuvres, se présente comme un modèle muséal à partJean Dubuffet coined the term Art Brut in 1945 to designate artworks made by untrained and non-professional artists. Between 1945 and 1976, with the help of the Compagnie de l'Art Brut, he constituted and exhibited an important collection made of thousands of artworks – the Collection of Art Brut, which was donated to Switzerland in 1976. Art Brut artworks were collected in psychiatric hospitals, rural contexts, or jails. Some are made with second-hand materials, most of them differ from the academic canons, and their uncommon aspect – very large, very small, and formless – questions the artistic norms. This research demonstrates that the materiality of these artworks has been the support of an avant-gardist project and a myth in the context of the post Second World War. They serve Dubuffet's subversive discourse and his fantasy to transform the art and the society of his time through artworks made outside the "cultural" sphere. They also serve the myth of an art « poor », « humble », « natural » and « raw ». In addition to that, this thesis highlights how the sizes of these artworks have changed museum space and display. Unprecedentedly, the Collection de l'Art Brut was conceived according to the materiality of artworks, leaving space to welcome rolls of more than 5 m
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Tagalidou, Efpraxia. "Weihreliefs an Herakles aus klassischer Zeit." Jonsered : P. Ǻströms, 1993. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb388954183.
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McKendrick, Scot. "Classical mythology and ancient history in works of art at the Courts of France, Burgundy and England 1364-1500." Thesis, Courtauld Institute of Art (University of London), 1988. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.282956.
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Posthumus, Liane. "Hybrid monsters in the Classical World : the nature and function of hybrid monsters in Greek mythology, literature and art." Thesis, Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/6865.
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Thesis (MPhil (Ancient Studies))--University of Stellenbosch, 2011.ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The aim of this thesis is to explore the purpose of monster figures by investigating the relationship between these creatures and the cultures in which they are generated. It focuses specifically on the human-animal hybrid monsters in the mythology, literature and art of ancient Greece. It attempts to answer the question of the purpose of these monsters by looking specifically at the nature of manhorse monsters and the ways in which their dichotomous internal and external composition challenged the cultural taxonomy of ancient Greece. It also looks at the function of monsters in a ritual context and how the Theseus myth, as initiation myth, and the Minotaur, as hybrid monster, conforms to the expectations of ritual monsters. The investigation starts by considering the history and uses of the term “monster” in an attempt to arrive at a reasonable definition of monstrosity. In aid of this definition, attention is also given to themes that recur when considering monster beings. This provides a basis from which the hybrid monsters of ancient Greece, the centaur and Minotaur in particular, can be considered. The next section of the thesis looks into the attitudes to animals prevalent in ancient Greece. The cultural value of certain animal types and even certain body parts have to be taken account, and the degree to which these can be traced to the nature and actions of the hybrid monster has to be considered. The main argument is divided in two sections. The first deals with the centaur as challenger to Greek cultural taxonomy. The centaur serves as an eminent example of how human-animal hybrid monsters combine the familiar and the foreign, the Self and the Other into a single complex being. The nature of this monster is examined with special reference to the ways in which the centaur, as proponent of chaos and wilderness, stands in juxtaposition to the ideals of Greek civilisation. The second section consists of an enquiry into the purpose of the hybrid monster and considers the Minotaur’s role as a facilitator of transformation. The focus is directed towards the ritual function of monsters and the ways in which monsters aid change and renewal both in individuals and in communities. By considering the Theseus-myth and the role of the Minotaur in the coming-of-age of the Attic hero as well as the city of Athens itself, the ritual theory is given application in ancient Greece. The conclusion of this thesis is that hybrid monsters, as manifestations of the internal dichotomy of man and the tenuous relationship between order and chaos, played a critical role in the personal and communal definition of man in ancient Greece.
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Die doelstelling van hierdie tesis is om die sin van monsters te ondersoek deur te kyk na die verhouding wat bestaan tussen hierdie wesens en die gemeenskappe waarbinne hulle hul ontstaan het. Die tesis fokus spesifiek op die mens-dier hibriede monster in die mitologie, literatuur en kuns van antieke Griekeland. Dit probeer om tot ‘n slotsom te kom oor die bestaansrede van monsters deur te kyk na die aard van die man-perd monster. Hierdie wese se tweeledige samestelling – met betrekking tot beide sy interne en eksterne komposisie – het ‘n wesenlike bedreiging ingehou vir die kulturele taksonomie van die antieke Grieke. Die tesis kyk ook na die rol, van monsters in die konteks van rituele gebeure. Die mite van Theseus as ‘n mite met rituele verbintenisse, en die Minotaurus as hibriede monster, word dan oorweeg om te bepaal wat die ooreenstemming is met die verwagtinge wat daargestel is vir rituele monsters. Ten einde ‘n redelike definisie van monsteragtigheid daar te stel, begin die ondersoek deur oorweging te skenk aan die geskiedenis en die gebruike van die woord “monster”. Ter ondersteuning van hierdie definisie word daar ook aandag geskenk aan sekere temas wat herhaaldelik opduik wanneer monsters ter sprake kom. Dit skep ‘n basis vir die ondersoek na die hibriede monsters van antieke Griekeland, en meer spesifiek na die kentaurus en die Minotaurus. Die tesis oorweeg ook die houding van die antieke Griekse beskawing teenoor diere. Die kulturele waarde van sekere soorte diere, en selfs seker ledemate van diere, moet in ag geneem word wanneer die hibriede monsterfiguur behandel word. Aandag moet geskenk word aan die maniere waarop die assosiasies wat die Grieke met diere gehad het, oorgedra word na die aard en handelinge van die monsterfiguur. Die hoofargument van die tesis word in twee dele uiteengesit. Die eerste gedeelte behandel die kentaurus as uitdager van die kulturele taksonomie van die antieke Grieke. Die kentaurus dien as ‘n uitstekende voorbeeld van die manier waarop die mens-dier monster dit wat bekend is en dit wat vreemd is, die Self en die Ander, kombineer in een komplekse wese. Die aard van hierdie wese word ondersoek met spesifieke verwysing na die maniere waarop die kentaurus, as voorstander van die ongetemde en van chaos, in teenstelling staan teenoor die ideale van die Griekse beskawing. Die tweede gedeelte vors die doel van die hibriede monster na en oorweeg die Minotaurus se rol as bevorderaar van transformasie. Hier word gefokus op die rol van die monster in ’n rituele konteks en die maniere waarop monsters verandering en vernuwing teweegbring in enkelinge sowel as in gemeenskappe. Hierdie teorie word van toepassing gemaak op antieke Griekeland deur die mite van Theseus en die rol van die Minotaurus te oorweeg binne die konteks van die proses van inburgering wat beide die held en sy stad, Athene, ondergaan. Die gevolgtrekking van hierdie tesis is dat hibriede monsters, as uitbeeldings van die interne tweeledigheid van die mens sowel as van die tenger verband tussen orde en chaos in die wêreld, ‘n noodsaaklike rol gespeel het in die persoonlike en sosiale definisie van die individu in antieke Griekeland.
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Fortis, Paolo. "Carving wood and creating shamans /." Thesis, St Andrews, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/523.
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Totskas, George. "Penthesilea : woman as hero /." Online version of thesis, 1990. http://hdl.handle.net/1850/11327.
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Roth, Isabel L. "From the Attic to the Cosmos: Myth in the Art of Anselm Kiefer 1973-2007." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2012. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/122.
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Anselm Kiefer was born in Germany, 1945—the year of Adolf Hitler’s suicide, and subsequently, the end of World War II. His own beginnings were shrouded by a national “repression” of history. This repression was at odds with Kiefer’s needs to establish his own origin. For this reason, the spirituality in his earlier work is often overshadowed by its subject—Nazi Germany. This thesis will look back on Kiefer’s work through the lens of mythology in an effort to re-evaluate his earlier art within the context of his works since 1990. From the 1970s to the present, Kiefer has drawn from mythology to find links between personal and universal human experience. We begin by examining Kiefer’s controversial Attic Paintings of 1973. In the Attic Paintings, German and Christian mythology helped Kiefer understand his origin as a post-war German artist. Kiefer then turned his attention to myths from outside cultures throughout the 1980s. We will look closely at three paintings from the 1980s that incorporate Greek, Judaic, and Egyptian mythology in an effort to understand Kiefer’s larger goals in broadening his mythological base. Following this discussion, we will examine two paintings from the 1990s and his 2007 permanent installation at the Louvre Museum. These selected works serve to illustrate how Kiefer presented his own cultivated, personal mythology under the stars in his still ongoing cosmic series. The 1990s mark Kiefer’s broadest expansion yet; in a sense, he went from “the attic to the universe” over the course of three decades.
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Krasauskienė, Laura. "Medis lietuvių vaizduojamajame mene nuo pagonybės iki šių dienų." Bachelor's thesis, Lithuanian Academic Libraries Network (LABT), 2010. http://vddb.laba.lt/obj/LT-eLABa-0001:E.02~2010~D_20100906_184614-29538.
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Šiame bakalauro darbe išanalizuotas medžio fenomenas vaizduojamajame mene įvairiais laikotarpiais. Vaizduojamasis menas – tai šiuolaikinis pranešimas, įeinantis į medijos sąvoką. Medija apima fotografiją, kinematografiją, videografiją bei žiniasklaidą. Senovės lietuvių simboliai, ornamentai, raštai – visa tai taip pat yra vaizduojamasis menas. Šiai temai atskleisti buvo išnagrinėtas medžio vaizdavimas lietuvių liaudies mene ir mitologijoje. Taip pat buvo išnagrinėta medžio samprata bei funkcijos šiuolaikinių medijų perspektyvoje. Išanalizuotas medžio vaizdavimas ir svarba šiuolaikinių menininkų darbuose. Sukurtas animacinis filmukas „Medis”.This movie, presented as the final work for the Bachelor’s degree in visual arts, analyses the phenomenon of a tree. Visual art – is a contemporary message, embraced in the “woody” concept. Wood resides in various artistic means: photography, cinematography, videography as well as media. Therefore, ancient Lithuanian symbols, ornaments and scripts also are forms of visual art. This animation reveals “tree” representation in Lithuanian folk art and mythology. It depicts not only the meaning of a tree but also a function in the contemporary perspective of “woodyness”, analyzing it’s visualization and importance in the works of the modern artists. Stop motion animation “Tree”.
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Osborne, Katelyn. "Kindred." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2016. https://dc.etsu.edu/etd/3047.
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Kindred, an MFA exhibition held at the Tipton Gallery located in downtown Johnson City from Feburary 22nd to March 4th. Kindred presents two bodies of work, which are a collection of drawings, etchings, monoprints, and lithographs, that center around a personal mythology and symbolism of self-identity and discovery. These works explore the physical and spiritual connection behind being a fraternal twin through the metaphorical use of animal imagery.
The ideas discussed in this paper center around the process of creating a personal mythology and symbolism through my observations of animals and how I relate that experience to other mythologies that inspire me. This process of creating narratives and iconography coincide with the writings of Joseph Campbell and Carl Jung. This paper also includes the inspiration of other artists, such as Beth Cavener and Dennis McNett, who also use animal imagery to explain a kind of kinship.
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Otitoju, Oluwabukumni Sharon. "Man in the Mirror: A Mythology-Driven Exploration of Multiple User-Interpretations in a Multimedia Space." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/32512.
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Artists, designers and writers have long employed ambiguity as a tool in compelling their audience to deduce a personal meaning to their work. As computing becomes less of a strictly workspace, task-oriented phenomenon and more of a ubiquitous, life-space one, it is increasingly important to consider the intelligence of the user in the design of everyday computer-based things. Support of multiple user interpretation through ambiguity is an element whose appropriate inclusion in system design can compel the user to deduce a personal interpretation of the systemâ s meaning and utility.
The work in this paper explores the process by which users may come to deduce a meaning to an ambiguous work, both as individuals and collaboratively. Incorporating elements of ambiguity, we created SenSpace, an immersive physical environment that embeds the Greek myth of Narcissus within itself. The subsequent user study provided insight on the process by which naïve visitors may come to deduce their meanings of a work, both individually and collaboratively. Our results showed that there exists a trade-off between a userâ s level of interaction and depth of the interpretation of the multimedia environment. We also show how ambiguity can be used as a design method, by incorporating observed user expectations into the system. This paper uses experimental evidence to advocate the design of systems that support not only the system goal the designer has in mind, but also the multiple perspectives and meanings that the user often brings to the system.Master of Science
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Wehmeier, Jennifer ML. "Constructing a pantheon of allies princely portraits and all'antica palace decorations in Renaissance Italy during the reign of Holy Roman Emperor Charles V /." Diss., Restricted to subscribing institutions, 2008. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1610113721&sid=1&Fmt=2&clientId=1564&RQT=309&VName=PQD.
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Booth, Anastasia G. "Playing with me: Feminine perspectives in fetishism and contemporary art." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2017. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/114001/2/Anastasia_Booth_Thesis.pdf.
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While many female contemporary art practitioners employ erotic fetishism in their work, the discourse surrounding fetishism is still perceived as primarily masculine. Critical feminist theorists are revisiting the fetish in order to explore previously marginalised and undervalued considerations of female sexual agency. While these theorists hint at fetish's strategic creative application and its ability to question hegemonic depictions of passive femininity, analyses do not articulate how sexual fetishism could be understood as a distinct creative stratagem. In response, this creative practice-led research project renegotiates fetishism as a critical feminist strategy and a distinct creative method in artistic practice.
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Wentzel, Andrieta. "The four cycles of Herakles : towards the visual articulation of myth as psychological process." Thesis, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10948/642.
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My research involves the reassertion of mythic experience in a manner considered contemporaneously relevant. The relevancy resides in the Jungian assumption that myth structures psychic experience to the benefit of the individual and ultimately, society. To this end, I have taken the hero myth of Heracles, and, by filtering it through Jung’s system promoting psychological maturation, that is what he called the individuation process, I have reconfigured it in fine art form
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Wescoat, Ruby. "The History of the World." VCU Scholars Compass, 2004. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/1177.
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This Thesis is my effort to understand what subjects I find interesting and why. In the processes of writing and making sculpture, I discovered that my underlying fascination is in history. I am interested in places and objects for their individual qualities, but I also want to know how they relate to the world. If I am drawn to an ancient place or object, I want to examine how it fits into the contemporary world, and visa versa. The complexity of these relationships is increased by the vast number of histories (or stories) that are intertwined in the world. Over the course of the thesis I write about my various influences, and the development of my work from undergraduate to graduate school. This progression has been from observation of natural world to a more complex questioning of how the world came to be what it is. I conclude by defining the direction in which I want my work to continue: directly along the border between myth and reality.
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Roessler, Heather. "Existential Flux." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2018. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd/745.
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My wok is a place for meditation (through play and ritual) to grapple with ideas around what it means to be alive. I explore my own history, psychology and the nature of things, to better understand myself. I create because of the need to build a familiarity with the unknown and the uncomfortable and to accept that which is out of my control. While seeking to understand and learn from my own personal confrontations with death, I also find my own form of spirituality.
Losing my hold on graspable things, as time and change tend to bring, witnessing the dualities in nature ever-shifting; I must accept that nothing stays the same nor remains… not even me.
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Rosenzweig, Rachel. "Aphrodite in Athens : a study of art and cult in the classical and late classical periods /." view abstract or download file of text, 1999. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/uoregon/fullcit?p9957572.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Oregon, 1999.Typescript. Includes vita and abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 225-237). Also available for download via the World Wide Web; free to University of Oregon users. Address: http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/uoregon/fullcit?p9957572.
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Fries, Katherine. "Ariadne's thread - memory, interconnection and the poetic in contemporary art." Connect to full text, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/5709.
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Thesis (M.V.A.)--University of Sydney, 2009.Title from title screen (viewed November 26, 2009) Submitted in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Visual Arts to the Sydney College of the Arts, University of Sydney. Degree awarded 2009; thesis submitted 2008. Includes bibliographical references.
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Crowe, Samuel W. "Morphisms." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2010. https://dc.etsu.edu/etd/1682.
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I discuss my Master of Fine Arts exhibition, Morphisms, hosted by Slocomb Galleries on the campus of East Tennessee State University March 22 through March 26, 2010. The exhibit includes works created during the artist's three year study at East Tennessee State University.
The exhibition consists of works that address the projection of human qualities on domesticated animals and the projection of animal qualities onto mythological deities. Discussion also includes the process involved in creating the artwork as well as artistic influences in technical concepts.
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Crum, Susanna Garts. "The heart of the park." Thesis, University of Iowa, 2012. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/2847.
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The Heart of the Park works to expose, preserve, and interpret the many layers of social history, fact, and fiction within Iowa City's City Park. This exhibition is a result of archival research, interviews, and on-site investigation. As a guide, I followed the path of Enoch Emery, a park-haunting voyeur featured in Flannery O'Connor's first novel, Wise Blood, which she wrote after graduating from the Iowa Writers' Workshop. Details of O'Connor's fictional version of City Park, in Chapter 5 of Wise Blood, as well as Enoch's relationship with the park, led to further discoveries regarding the park's history, and ultimately, a reinterpretation of these seemingly disparate layers of fact and fiction. While the contemporary archive claims depoliticized and anonymous reasons and methods for preservation, my hybrid practice creates a role for the subjective, idiosyncratic archivist, who suffuses factual research with myth-making. The Heart of the Park is one glimpse into an ongoing collection of interpreted sites, in which I attempt to prevent the loss of local histories, and enact the inevitable chain of reinterpretations of site.
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Kerr, Tamsin, and na. "Conversations with the bunyip : the idea of the wild in imagining, planning, and celebrating place through metaphor, memoir, mythology, and memory." Griffith University. Griffith School of Environment, 2007. http://www4.gu.edu.au:8080/adt-root/public/adt-QGU20070814.160841.
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What lies beneath Our cultured constructions? The wild lies beneath. The mud and the mad, the bunyip Other, lies beneath. It echoes through our layered metaphors We hear its memories Through animal mythology in wilder places Through emotive imagination of landscape memoir Through mythic archaeologies of object art. Not the Nation, but the land has active influence. In festivals of bioregion, communities re-member its voice. Our creativity goes to what lies beneath. This thesis explores the ways we develop deeper and wilder connections to specific regional and local landscapes using art, festival, mythology and memoir. It argues that we inhabit and understand the specific nature of our locale when we plan space for the non-human and creatively celebrate culture-nature coalitions. A wilder and more active sense of place relies upon community cultural conversations with the mythic, represented in the Australian exemplar of the bunyip. The bunyip acts as a metaphor for the subaltern or hidden culture of a place. The bunyip is land incarnate. No matter how pristine the wilderness or how concrete the urban, every region has its localised bunyip-equivalent that defines, and is shaped by, its community and their environmental relationships. Human/non-human cohabitations might be actively expressed through art and cultural experience to form a wilder, more emotive landscape memoir. This thesis discusses a diverse range of landstories, mythologies, environmental art, and bioregional festivities from around Australasia with a special focus on the Sunshine Coast or Gubbi-Gubbi region. It suggests a subaltern indigenous influence in how we imagine, plan and celebrate place. The cultural discourses of metaphor, memoir, mythology and memory shape land into landscapes. When the metaphor is wild, the memoir celebratory, the mythology animal, the memory creative and complex, our ways of being are ecocentric and grounded. The distinctions between nature and culture become less defined; we become native to country. Our multi-cultured histories are written upon the earth; our community identities shape and are shaped by the land. Together, monsters and festivals remind us of the active land.
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Kerr, Tamsin. "Conversations with the bunyip: the idea of the wild in imagining, planning, and celebrating place through metaphor, memoir, mythology, and memory." Thesis, Griffith University, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10072/365495.
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What lies beneath Our cultured constructions? The wild lies beneath. The mud and the mad, the bunyip Other, lies beneath. It echoes through our layered metaphors We hear its memories Through animal mythology in wilder places Through emotive imagination of landscape memoir Through mythic archaeologies of object art. Not the Nation, but the land has active influence. In festivals of bioregion, communities re-member its voice. Our creativity goes to what lies beneath. This thesis explores the ways we develop deeper and wilder connections to specific regional and local landscapes using art, festival, mythology and memoir. It argues that we inhabit and understand the specific nature of our locale when we plan space for the non-human and creatively celebrate culture-nature coalitions. A wilder and more active sense of place relies upon community cultural conversations with the mythic, represented in the Australian exemplar of the bunyip. The bunyip acts as a metaphor for the subaltern or hidden culture of a place. The bunyip is land incarnate. No matter how pristine the wilderness or how concrete the urban, every region has its localised bunyip-equivalent that defines, and is shaped by, its community and their environmental relationships. Human/non-human cohabitations might be actively expressed through art and cultural experience to form a wilder, more emotive landscape memoir. This thesis discusses a diverse range of landstories, mythologies, environmental art, and bioregional festivities from around Australasia with a special focus on the Sunshine Coast or Gubbi-Gubbi region. It suggests a subaltern indigenous influence in how we imagine, plan and celebrate place. The cultural discourses of metaphor, memoir, mythology and memory shape land into landscapes. When the metaphor is wild, the memoir celebratory, the mythology animal, the memory creative and complex, our ways of being are ecocentric and grounded. The distinctions between nature and culture become less defined; we become native to country. Our multi-cultured histories are written upon the earth; our community identities shape and are shaped by the land. Together, monsters and festivals remind us of the active land.Thesis (PhD Doctorate)
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
Griffith School of Environment
Faculty of Science, Environment, Engineering and Technology
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Flood, Biruta Livija. "Barbarian sources of imaging and use of northern mythology in twelfth century Burgundian sculpture." Master's thesis, Canberra, ACT : The Australian National University, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/150037.
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Holcomb, Carli A. "Unknowable Terrain." VCU Scholars Compass, 2016. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/4302.
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I see the moment of creation as a threshold, a fertile ground where anything is possible. My work combines an interest in science, mythology, cosmologies, and a childlike sense of wonderment to seek the unknowable. I create formless floating worlds that have a seducing, enlightening, and ultimately deceiving presence. Vibrant lusty clusters of candied opulence emphasize the wetness at the beginning of life. Dry folds give way to woozy nests and frenzied organisms while dripping crystalline structures puncture soft unknowable terrains.
Through the process of making I indulge my desire to create an otherworld, one that bubbles, garishly drips, and slips slowly into lavish amalgamations. By combining artificial and organic materials with the rich traditions of metalsmithing, I am able to explore the infinity of tiny connections that make up the complex whole of the natural world. I make as a result of my own curiosity, drawing and building an imaginary world, from one layer to the next.
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Leclercq-Marx, Jacqueline. "La sirène dans la pensée et dans l'art chrétien, 2e - 12e siècles: antécédents culturels et réalités nouvelles." Doctoral thesis, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, 1987. http://hdl.handle.net/2013/ULB-DIPOT:oai:dipot.ulb.ac.be:2013/213418.
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Von, Solms Charlayn Imogen. "Ingenuity's engine : an overview of the history and development of the concept of the muse." Thesis, Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/16468.
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Thesis (MPhil)--University of Stellenbosch, 2003.ENGLISH ABSTRACT: "The growth of any discipline depends on the ability to communicate and develop ideas, and this in turn relies on a language which is sufficiently detailed and flexible" (Singh 1997: 59). Many metaphors relating to creativity are too misleading, confusing, and restricted in scope for a meaningful exploration of the phenomenon and its fluctuating social and cultural contexts. Given the Muse's long-term association with literature, philosophy, education, and more recently, the fine arts and other "creative" fields, an analysis of this concept may provide a unique opportunity to gain insight into the "mechanisms" underlying the creative process. Since affiliation with the Muse appears to have signalled attainment of critical cultural and/or social status by cultural practitioners in various societies, from the ancient to the present (a category which was broadened substantially), it is thus logical to assume this concept encompasses and has accumulated characteristics particular to the creative process as historically and currently valued in Western culture. Given the limited scope of the thesis, I have focused on specific concerns: 1) Provide an overview of the history, origin and development of the concept via specific examples ranging from antiquity, the medieval period, and the modern. 2) Assess the changes which have occurred in the development of the concept, and postulate likely causes: such as for example, the impact of an increased focus on the visual - and by extension, the physical - due to a more literate populace, on a concept originally conceived of as experienced through predominantly audial means. 3) Identify closely related concepts, the characteristics of which may have played a role in the formulation of the initial concept, along with those integrated into it, to form the modern version of the Muse: examples include the influence of the myth of Pygmalion on notions regarding the poet's relationship with both material and Muse; and the consequences of an amalgamation of characteristics of Aphrodite with those of the pastoral Muse. 4) Explore the extent to which the Muse-poet interaction can reveal fundamental aspects of the creative process and its main components: the differences between the public invocation and experience of the Muse in an oral context, as opposed to the privately experienced Muse of the literate poet; also, the changes imposed on the concept's perceived means of functioning due to its extension to the practice of the visual arts; and the correlation between the Jungian notion of the anima and aspects of the Muse. 5) Postulate the fundamental aspects of the creative process as revealed by analysis of the concept of the Muse for further investigation. In brief then, the main intention of this thesis is simply to examine by analysis of particular examples, the feasibility of applying the concept of the Muse as metaphor through which to identify for further exploration, issues and themes relating to the production and changes in social assessment of creative enterprises.
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: "The growth of any discipline depends on the ability to communicate and develop ideas, and this in turn relies on a language which is sufficiently detailed and flexible" (Singh 1997: 59). Menige metafore verbonde aan kreatiwiteit is te misleidend, verwarrend, of beperk in omvang vir 'n betekenisvolle ondersoek van díe verskynsel en die fluktueerende sosiale en kulturele kontekste daarvan. Gesien in die lig van die Muse se langtermyn assosiasie met letterkunde, filosofie, opvoedkunde en meer onlangs, the skone kunste en ander "kreatiewe" velde, mag 'n analise van die konsep moontlik 'n unieke geleentheid bied om insig te verkry in die onderliggende "meganismes" van die kreatiewe proses. Aangesien affiliasie met die Muse blyk om die bereiking van kritiese kulturele en/of sosiale status, deur kulturele praktisyne in verskeie samelewings, van die antieke tot die huidige ('n kategorie wat aansienlik uitgebou is) aan te dui, is dit dus logies om te aanvaar dat die konsep alomvattend is van eienskappe kenmerkend van die kreatiewe proses, soos geskiedkundig en huidig op prys gestel in die Westerse kultuur. Gegewe die beperkte bestek van die tesis, is gefokus op spesifieke kwessies: 1) Verskaf 'n oorsig van die geskiedenis, oorsprong, en ontwikkeling van die konsep deur spesifieke voorbeelde, in omvang vanaf die antieke, die middeleuse periode, en die moderne. 2) Evalueer die veranderinge wat voorgekom het in die ontwikkeling van die konsep, en veronderstel moontlike redes daarvoor: soos byvoorbeeld, die impak van vermeerderde fokus op die visuele - en daarby die fisiese - as gevolg van 'n meer geletterde bevolking, op 'n konsep wat aanvanklik hoofsaaklik ouditief ondervind is. 3) Identifiseer verwante konsepte, die eienskappe waarvan moontlik 'n rol kon gespeel het in die formulasie van die aanvanklike konsep, asook die wat daarby geintegreer is, om die moderne weergawe van die Muse te vorm: voorbeelde sluit in, die invloed van die mite van Pigmalion op begrippe aangaande die digter se verhouding met beide die materiaal en Muse; en die gevolge van 'n samesmelting van Aphrodite se karaktertrekke met die van die pastorale Muse. 4) Ondersoek die mate waartoe die Muse-digter verhouding fundamentele aspekte van die kreatiewe proses en sy hoof komponente kan ontbloot: soos die verskille tussen die publieke invokasie en ervaring van die Muse in 'n verbale konteks, in teenstelling met die geletterde digter wat die Muse privaat ondevind; asook die veranderinge temeegebring op die persepsies aangaande die konsep se funksionering as gevolg van die uitbreiding daarvan tot die visuele kunste; en die korrelasie tussen die Jungiaanse idee van die anima, en aspekte van die Muse. 5) Veronderstel die fundamentele aspekte van die kreatiewe proses, soos ontbloot deur analise van die konsep van die Muse vir verdere ondersoek. Kortliks dan, die hoof voorneme van hierdie tesis is om deur analise van spesifieke voorbeelde, die uitvoerbaarheid te ondersoek om die konsep van die Muse toe te pas as metafoor vir verdere navorsing waardeur kwessies en temas, aangaande die produksie en veranderinge in sosiale waardering van kreatiewe ondernemings, ge-identifiseer kan word.
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Stunskaitė, Nijolė. "Baltų mitologijos vertybinės nuostatos dailės pamokose." Master's thesis, Lithuanian Academic Libraries Network (LABT), 2008. http://vddb.library.lt/obj/LT-eLABa-0001:E.02~2008~D_20080924_182100-42916.
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Vertybinių nuostatų formavimas dailės pamokose atskleidžiant baltų mitologijos bruožus ir vertybes.
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Atskleisti baltų mitologijos bruožus ir vertybes, sudaryti prielaidas jų sklaidai vizualinėje raiškoje.
Hipotezė
Pažintis su baltų mitologija praplečia mokinių kūrybinės veiklos diapazoną, skatina vaizduotės ir kūrybiškumo ugdymą.
Uždaviniai
1. Apžvelgti baltų mitologijos vietą šiuolaikinėje visuomenėje ir mokymo sistemoje.
2. Išnagrinėti mokslinę, metodinę literatūrą baltų mitologijos klausimais.
3. Naujų, patrauklių jaunimui tautiškumo jausenos, lietuviškos savimonės stiprinimo būdų paieška.
4. Sukurti vizualinius kūrinius, padedančius supažindinti mokinius su baltų mitologija.
5. Atlikti kokybinius – kiekybinius tyrimus, nustatant, kokios senosios baltų mitologijos vertybės atsispindi šiuolaikinio jaunimo sąmonėj 11 – 12 klasių mokinių tarpe.
6.Nustatyti pedagogų požiūrį į baltų mitologiją ir panagrinėti jos vietą dalykinėse programose.
Kokybiniai tyrimai.
Giluminio interviu metodas pasitarnavo:
1. Apžvelgiant pagrindinius visatos sąrangos principus
Technologijos mokslų daktaras V. Dineika
2. Nustatant moksleivių sąmoningumo laipsnį.
10 klasės moksleivė, folkloristė J. Čičirkaitė
3. Įvardinant įdomiausias etnokultūros šventes,skleidžiant baltų mitologijos vertybes
Etninių tradicijų puoselėtoja E. Plioplienė
4. Įvertinant etnokultūrossvarbą, formuojant miesto kultūrinį veidą
Etnokultūros centro darbuotoja M. Liugienė
5. Pabrėžiant folklorinių... [toliau žr. visą tekstą]The aim To reveal the features and values of the Balt mythology in order to envisual art. Hypotezis Knoing the Balt mythology ridens the horizons of studens activities, develops imaginations and creativity Mythology and religion are the highest level of spiritual life. That is why religions belief very often was the couse of historic events. It is difficult to perclive the essence of some phenomena without those studies. This is the key to understanding of the care of folk songs, fairy tales and even the elements of folklore ornaments.The Balts dides’t invent their alphabet, thei dides’t lieve their religions texsts and rithuals. We can judge abaut their religion and kults from short messages in the chronicles of neighbouring countries or the reminiscence of travellers. After Lithuania was baptised many old religions things turned into traditions and customs. There are not enough data to reconstruct separate religious systems of the Baltic tribes. Researchess are confident of the main differences in Lithuanian Latvian or Prusian believs. Some elements of Indoeuropean substrato f ontlook kan be tranced as there are featuhres of totems and the cults of femini goddesses. According to the starter of archeomythology dr. M. Gimbutienė this is heritage of the old Europe. Structurized religions system corres pouding the society orf that time had pean tribes, its hierarchy is based on the threesome of Gods. ,,the whole old culture whick we call folk, traditional or ethnic... [to full text]
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Valim, Julio Pancracio. "Mito, arte e educação: o imaginário em Harry Potter." Universidade de São Paulo, 2014. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/48/48134/tde-08122014-104552/.
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Os aspectos próprios aos processos de formação pessoal acontecem, também, em âmbito escolar, entretanto, são mobilizados por instâncias que extrapolam as práticas educativas institucionalizadas. Fundamentados em uma reflexão filosófica sobre as distintas concepções pedagógicas que se articulam em torno de diferentes compreensões da condição humana, procuramos, dessa maneira, articular a função da arte na formulação de conhecimentos aos saberes adquiridos por meio da experimentação do mito. Para tanto, valemo-nos de uma abordagem antropológica do imaginário e seus processos criativos, inspirada no pensamento de Gilbert Durand, cuja configuração nos apresenta os símbolos como uma estrutura sintética, intermediadora das pulsões subjetivas e intimações cósmico sociais, operantes na apreensão criativa de uma determinada realidade, revelando o desenrolar dos trajetos formativos enraizados nos campos da cultura e evidenciando o potencial pedagógico das narrativas ficcionais. Dessa maneira, focalizando os elementos sensíveis envolvidos na prática da educação, concebida em sua realização estética, como propõe Duarte Júnior, elaboramos uma leitura mitohermenêutica de Harry Potter, isto é, uma interpretação dos símbolos dinamizados pela trama mitológica. Este método de leitura foi adotado a fim de darmos forma ao imaginário constituído em torno da saga, delinear uma de suas possíveis significações simbólicas e apontar, junto ao percurso do herói, as transformações existenciais que acompanham a passagem da vivência egocentrada à experiência comunitária.The typical aspects of a personal make-up in progress also occur in the school setting, however, are mobilized by instances that go beyond the institutionalized educational practices. Grounded in a philosophical reflection on the different pedagogical concepts that are articulated around different understandings of the human condition, we seek in this way to articulate the role of art in the formulation of knowledge to wisdom acquired through experimentation myth. For this, we make use of an anthropological approach to the creative imagination and their creative processes, inspired by the thought of Gilbert Durand, whose configuration presents the symbols as a synthetic carrier, mediator of subjective social instincts and cosmic orders, operative in the apprehension of a reality, revealing the development of formative paths rooted in the fields of culture and highlighting the pedagogical potential of fictional narratives. Thus, focusing on the sensitive elements involved in the practice of education, conceived in its aesthetic accomplishment, as proposed by Duarte, Jr., developed a mitohermenêutica reading on Harry Potter, that is, an interpretation of the mythological symbols streamlined plot. This reading method was adopted in order to give way to the imaginary constituted around the exploit, an outline of their possible symbolic meanings and pointing along the path of the hero, the existential transformations that accompany the transition from self-centered to community living experience.