The Role of Myth in Mark Rothko´s and Barnett Newman´s art
Thesis title in Czech: | Role Mýtu v umění Marka Rothka a Barnetta Newmana |
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Thesis title in English: | The Role of Myth in Mark Rothko´s and Barnett Newman´s art |
Key words: | Mýtus, Mark Rothko, Barnett Newman, druhá světová válka, americké umění, primitivismus, Friedrich Nietzsche, René Girard, židovský původ |
English key words: | Myth, Mark Rothko, Barnett Newman, World War II, American art, primitivism, Friedrich Nietzsche, René Girard, Jewish origin |
Academic year of topic announcement: | 2013/2014 |
Thesis type: | Bachelor's thesis |
Thesis language: | angličtina |
Department: | Institute of Art History (21-UDU) |
Supervisor: | prof. PhDr. Vojtěch Lahoda, CSc. |
Author: | hidden - assigned and confirmed by the Study Dept. |
Date of registration: | 19.05.2014 |
Date of assignment: | 19.05.2014 |
Administrator's approval: | not processed yet |
Confirmed by Study dept. on: | 03.05.2016 |
Date and time of defence: | 01.06.2016 09:00 |
Date of electronic submission: | 10.05.2016 |
Date of proceeded defence: | 01.06.2016 |
Submitted/finalized: | committed by student and finalized |
Opponents: | prof. PhDr. Marie Rakušanová, Ph.D. |
Guidelines |
In my bachelor thesis I will focus on two important protagonists of American modern art, Mark Rothko and Barnett Newman, within the context of their historical situation. I will examine how their art and their thoughts, as reflected in occasional writings and statements, relate to period of World War II and how they coincide with other artists, poets and thinkers of their time. In early 1940s they often talked about myth and mythology became one of the main elements of their art. I will try to elucidate this interest and explain the position of myth in modern society. For this purpose I chose to base my research on theoretical work of René Girard and Eric Voegelin. My work is divided in three sections. In a beginning i will describe Girard's theory of myth and compare it with other openions on this subject, I will also explain the relation between myths and ideologies of the 20th century. In second part I will outline the situation of those artists, significance of their Jewish origin and their position on American art scene. Two following chapters will be dedicated to analysis of Rothko's and Newman's art and opinions separately and the formal and emotional issues of their art will be discussed at the conclusion. I believe that closer examination of the ideas that underlie their work will lead to fuller understanding of their message. |
References |
Michael Leja, Reframing Abstract Expressionism: Subjectivity and Painting in the 1940s, Yale University press, 1993
David Anfam, Abstract Expressionism, London 2012 Anne C. Chave, Mark Rothko: Subjects in Abstraction, Yale University Press, 1989 Mark Rothko, Umělcova skutečnost, originál 2004 (Yale University Press), přeložila Eva Kondrysová, Praha: Arbor Vitae, 2008 Barnett Newman, Umělec - kritik, originál 1990 (Barnett Newman Foundation), přeložil Ladislav Nagy, Stanislav Kolíbal, Praha: Arbor Vitae 2003 Andrea Pappas, Mark Rothko and the politics of jewish identity: 1939-1945, University of Southern California press, 1997 Jeffrey J. Katzin, Perception, Expectation, and Meaning in Barnett Newman’s Stations of the Cross Series, Wesleyan University press, 2010 Kate Liebman, Passion in Painting: Barnett Newman’s Stations of the Cross, Yale University press, 2013 W. Jackson Rushing, The Impact of Nietzsche and Northwest Coast Indian Art on Barnett Newman's Idea of Redemption in Abstract Expressionism, Art Journal, Vol.47, No.3, 1988 Charles Harrison, Paul J. Wood (Ed.), Art in Theory 1900-1990: An Anthology of Changing Ideas, 1993 Friedrich Nietzsche, The Birth of Tragedy Out of the Spirit of Music, original 1872, Translated by Ian Johnston Vancouver Island University, Richer Resources Publications, 2012 Fear and Trembling and The Sickness Unto Death, Søren Kierkegaard, original 1843, Translated by Walter Lowrie, Princeton University Press, 1968 René Girard, I See Satan Fall Like Lightning, original 1999, Translated by James G. Williams , Maryknoll, N.Y.: Orbis Books, 2001 Michael Kirwan, René Girrad: Uvedení do díla, originál 2005, Překlad Jiří Kučera, Praha: Centrum pro studium demokracie, 2008 James Elkins, Proč lidé pláčou před obrazy, originál 2004, přeložila Markéta Blažková-Bauerová, Praha: Academia, 2007 |