Show Notes - Episode 2: A New Gorgon

1. Roland Barthes – Mythologies

  • Search: "Roland Barthes Mythologies summary"

  • Link: https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/56917/mythologies/9780099529750.html

2. The Odyssey by Homer

  • Search: "The Odyssey Homer full text"

  • Link: http://classics.mit.edu/Homer/odyssey.html

3. Artemisia Gentileschi – "Judith Beheading Holofernes"

  • Search: "Artemisia Gentileschi Judith Beheading Holofernes painting"

  • Link: https://www.uffizi.it/en/artworks/judith-beheading-holofernes

4. Francisco Goya – "The Third of May 1808"

  • Search: "Francisco Goya The Third of May painting"

  • Link: https://www.museodelprado.es/en/the-collection/art-work/the-3rd-of-may-1808-in-madrid/fe6f5c01-8b85-4e70-b56a-7bb58b70982e

5. Édouard Manet – "The Execution of Emperor Maximilian"

  • Search: "Édouard Manet Execution of Emperor Maximilian painting"

  • Link: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/436945

6. Yue Minjun – "Execution"

  • Search: "Yue Minjun Execution painting"

  • Link: https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/yue-execution-t07608

7. Shakespeare’s Macbeth

  • Search: "Macbeth full text"

  • Link: https://shakespeare.mit.edu/macbeth/full.html

8. Chiaroscuro (Art Term)

Show Notes - Episode 1: The Reaches of Artistic Testimony

In this pilot episode, the foundation of the notion of “An Infinite Language” is explored. From the process of painterly seeing to Ozymandias and the enduring voice of the arts and the artist.
Some highlights:
Can you paint with words?
The artistic voice is more enduring than absolute power. 
The everyday person has the power to tell, to convey and sculpt our notions of what happened.
What voice carries on?
Creative output is an infinite language, it cannot be relegated to, cannot be limited to solving the world’s problems. Art is not a for-hire form of expression that is only used for problem solving.
What is the contrast between Ozymandias and the message in Emma Lazarus's poem on the Statue of Liberty? "The New Colossus" is a message of hope, a claim that the way of lifting up is the golden door. Other works discussed: Guernica by Picasso, David's the Coronation of Napoleon 

Key References:

1.     Percy Bysshe Shelley – "Ozymandias"
Search: "Ozymandias poem Percy Bysshe Shelley"
Link: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/46565/ozymandias

2.     Pablo Picasso – "Guernica"
Search: "Picasso Guernica painting"
Link: https://www.museoreinasofia.es/en/collection/artwork/guernica

3.     Jacques-Louis David – "The Coronation of Napoleon"
Search: "Jacques Louis David The Coronation of Napoleon painting"
Link: https://www.louvre.fr/en/oeuvre-notices/coronation-emperor-napoleon-i

4.     Emma Lazarus – "The New Colossus"
Search: "Emma Lazarus The New Colossus poem"
Link: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/46550/the-new-colossus

5.     The Colossus of Rhodes
Search: "The Colossus of Rhodes statue"
Link: https://www.britannica.com/topic/Colossus-of-Rhodes

6.     Robert Motherwell – General Search
Search: "Robert Motherwell artist"
Link: https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/robert-motherwell-1654

7.     Jack Whitten – General Search
Search: "Jack Whitten artist"
Link: https://jackwhittenart.com/

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