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Black Light: Myth and Meaning in Modern Painting
ISBN: 978-1-405-19114-2
June 2009
Wiley-Blackwell
128 pages
Opening a new dialogue between modern and ancient, Black Light explores living myth in modern paintings
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
Traces unexpected thematic correspondences across two millennia of literature and art, and 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