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Title Details:
The recontextualization of artwork
Other Titles: Interpictorial metafictions in illustrated narratives
Authors: Koukoulas, Yannis
Subject: HUMANITIES AND ARTS > ARTS AND LETTERS > PHILOLOGY > LITERARY FORMS AND GENRES > HUMOUR (LITERARY)
HUMANITIES AND ARTS > ARTS AND LETTERS > PHILOLOGY > LITERARY FORMS AND GENRES > POPULAR LITERATURE > COMICS
HUMANITIES AND ARTS > ARTS AND LETTERS > ARTS > ART > WORKS OF ART
HUMANITIES AND ARTS > ARTS AND LETTERS > ARTS > ART STYLES > CONTEMPORARY ART
HUMANITIES AND ARTS > ARTS AND LETTERS > ARTS > ART STYLES > MODERN ART
HUMANITIES AND ARTS > PHILOSOPHY > APPROACHES AND SCHOOLS IN PHILOSOPHY > POSTMODERNISM
HUMANITIES AND ARTS > ARTS AND LETTERS > ARTS > ART THEORY
HUMANITIES AND ARTS > ARTS AND LETTERS > ARTS > ART THEORY > ART HISTORY
Keywords:
Recontextualization
Artwork
Interpictoriality
Metafiction
Comics
Postmodernism
Parody
Humor
Appropriation
Adaptation
Description:
Abstract:
The textbook focuses on the concept of the recontextualizing of the artistic work via its creative modification and its integration into new contexts. It mainly examines the method of modification as applied to the illustrated narratives of comics from the modernist period onwards. Thus, this method is presented using the multiplying effect resulting from the coexistence of the word and the image in order to create new narratives (metanarratives, metafictions, etc.). Concepts that are particularly widespread in modern, and especially contemporary art, are analysed and described in relation to the transfer of a work into new contexts, such as appropriation, revision, adaptation, intersemiotic translation, etc. Not only this but also, terms describing the ways in which images are associated, such as interpictoriality, are explained with a wealth of examples. To this end, terminology and methods of analysing the relationship between 'texts' in the broad sense (intertextuality - Kristeva, metatextuality, hypertextuality, etc. - Genette) are used in an attempt to identify the possibility of extending them with appropriate adaptations to the field of images, but also theories - critiques of postmodern art and its function that have been formulated both by thinkers who are negative to postmodernism (e.g. Jameson, Baudrillard, etc.) and by its supporters (e.g. Hutcheon, Rose etc.). In an attempt to clarify the confusing terminology, concepts such as the Droste Effect, encapsulation, irony, parody, farce, grotesque, homage, etc. are presented and developed through examples and their possible relationship with humour and defamiliarization (association, transposition, exaggeration, transformation, etc. - Klein). Finally, an attempt is made to provide a historical interpretation of the practice of recontextualizing from its beginnings in the late 19th and early 20th centuries (editorial cartoons, Little Nemo, Krazy Kat, etc.) to its generalized use in the post-war period by MAD magazine, its politicisation in the Underground years and its complex forms and multiple dimensions in contemporary alternative comics (Art Brut, Art Ops, Army @Love, Crossed, Asterix, etc)through the recontextualization of iconic artworks by artists such as Da Vinci, Michelangelo, David, Goya, Hokusai, Manet, Whistler, Munch, Duchamp, Malevich, Dali, Picasso, Magritte, Hopper, Wood, Escher, etc.
Linguistic Editors: Zacharopoulou, Katherine
Graphic Editors: Fasili, Angeliki
Type: Monograph
Creation Date: 24-11-2023
Item Details:
ISBN 978-618-228-153-6
License: Attribution - NonCommercial - ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)
DOI http://dx.doi.org/10.57713/kallipos-387
Handle http://hdl.handle.net/11419/11520
Bibliographic Reference: Koukoulas, Y. (2023). The recontextualization of artwork [Monograph]. Kallipos, Open Academic Editions. https://dx.doi.org/10.57713/kallipos-387
Language: Greek
Consists of:
1. Intertextuality and interpictoriality
2. Terminology expansions and refinements
3. Encapsulated illustrations
4. From rejection to acceptance
5. From MAD to Underground
6. From collage to Pop Art
7. Postmodern parody: terminology and rhetoric
8. Screams, aphorisms and defenses
9. Parodies of fear and terror
10. To the question of ‘being a tool or a source of sarcasm’ the answer is: humor
Number of pages 288
Publication Origin: Kallipos, Open Academic Editions
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