Encore la Gorgone
How to represent the image of an unbearable image? Just by a metaimage: a reflection, the image of an impossible vision (the gaze of the Gorgon) in the image by the painters of vase and ekphrasis. This paper offers an iconic route between texts (Lucian, Apollodoros, Philostratus) and paintings of It...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | fra |
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Centre d´Histoire et Théorie des Arts
2020-12-01
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| Series: | Images Re-Vues |
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| Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/imagesrevues/8852 |
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| Summary: | How to represent the image of an unbearable image? Just by a metaimage: a reflection, the image of an impossible vision (the gaze of the Gorgon) in the image by the painters of vase and ekphrasis. This paper offers an iconic route between texts (Lucian, Apollodoros, Philostratus) and paintings of Italiot and Attic vases (in particular by the Pan Painter), as narrative and reflexive evidence, which decline available strategies to finally “let watch”, around the beheading of Medusa, at the gaze of the Gorgon. |
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| ISSN: | 1778-3801 |