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Black Light: Myth and Meaning in Modern Painting

Black Light: Myth and Meaning in Modern Painting Paperback / softback - 2009 - 1st Edition

by Francis Gooding

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Paperback / softback. New. Painters have always drawn on the classics to find myths and symbols which will answer to contemporary problems. In Black Light , Francis Gooding examines four modern paintings in the light of ancient themes, and illuminates the permanence and power of the mythic imagination.
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  • Title Black Light: Myth and Meaning in Modern Painting
  • Author Francis Gooding
  • Binding Paperback / softback
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Condition New
  • Pages 128
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Wiley-Blackwell, Singapore
  • Date 2009
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents
  • Bookseller's Inventory # A9781405191142
  • ISBN 9781405191142 / 1405191147
  • Weight 0.42 lbs (0.19 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.85 x 6.3 x 0.22 in (22.48 x 16.00 x 0.56 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Painting, Modern, Mythology, Classical, in art
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2009005391
  • Dewey Decimal Code 704.947

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

From the rear cover

Myths are never limited to place or time. They are ever-present as each epoch offers them a new guise. It may even be said that meaning itself is achieved by the same energies that animate myth. Black Light examines four paintings from the Modern tradition in the light of episodes from antique mythology. As the myths illuminate the paintings, and paintings throw light on the myths, Gooding shows that themes from ancient sources can be seen to resonate in modern representations. Tracing unexpected thematic correspondences across two millennia of literature and art, the author finds that wherever meaning is sought through interpretation, myth becomes an indispensable tool of analysis. In the work of classical authors such as Sophocles and Ovid, Gooding finds mythic elements which are also present in paintings by Manet, Matisse, Richards and Warhol. Opening a new dialogue between modern and ancient, Black Light explores living myth in modern paintings.

About the author

Francis Gooding is a writer. Educated in both art history and anthropology, his major research to date has been on the problem of history as natural category. He is a contributing editor to Critical Quarterly. Black Light is his first book.