ΠΑΝΟΣ ΣΤΑΘΑΤΟΣ, Μια διακαλλιτεχνική συνάντηση των Χτιστών του Γιώργου Χειμωνά με την Pietà του Michelangelo και τον πίνακα Μορφέας ή Αποκαθήλωση του Αλέξανδρου Ίσαρη
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An inter-artistic interrelation of Giorgos Chimonas’ The Builders with Michelangelo’s Pietà and the painting of Alexandros Isaris Morpheus or Deposition
The object of this interart study is the dialogical interrelation of Literature and Painting through the demonstration of the visual dimension of Giorgos Chimonas’ prose fiction, The Builders (1979). The research uses methodological tools from Comparative Poetics in order to set the necessary terms and preconditions of an approach between two distinct Arts, namely Literature and Painting. In this respect, the analysis is greatly influenced by Dimitris Angelatos’ hermeneutic study of the relations between literature and painting and specifically his theorization of the paradigm of simultaneity. Therefore, a synthesis is attempted between the numerous mentions of Chimonas’ theoretical work on logos (λόγος) and its simultaneity, on matters of consciousness and phenomenology, and most importantly on painting and on the crucial role of visuality, in combination with theoretical aspects of Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Gilles Deleuze on painting (and on art in general) as expression. Then the research goes on to the interart comparison of Chimonas’ artistic sketch “Valasi and the messenger of The Builders”, his sole visual artwork that represents a scene from his literary work, with the respective excerpt from The Builders, and with the paradigmatic - intertextual axis which is opened between the painting of Alexandros Isaris Morpheus or Deposition (1979) and Michelangelo’s Pietà, as the initial source of the former. Thus the paper has two correlated objectives: firstly to interconnect the theoretical and the artistic work in Chimonas’ oeuvre and secondly to showcase the visual and pictorial aspects of logos in The Builders.
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Σταθάτος Π. (2022). ΠΑΝΟΣ ΣΤΑΘΑΤΟΣ, Μια διακαλλιτεχνική συνάντηση των Χτιστών του Γιώργου Χειμωνά με την Pietà του Michelangelo και τον πίνακα Μορφέας ή Αποκαθήλωση του Αλέξανδρου Ίσαρη. Comparison, 31, 215–239. https://doi.org/10.12681/comparison.27993
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