Contemporary art and classical myth /
Wallace, Isabelle Loring.
Hirsh, Jennie.
Farnham : Ashgate,
c2011.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Art and mythology.
Mythology, Classical, in art.
Art, Modern
Art, Modern