Linked Figures / Aristophanes on Eros - Couverture souple

Plato

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0956509290 ISBN 13 : 9780956509291

Editeur : Sylph Editions, 2012

Synopsis

Book by Plato

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The third edition of The Nobile Folios explores Linked Figures 1949, a bronze sculpture by Kenneth Armitage. It is set alongside Aristophanes' speech on Eros, in Plato's Symposium, in which he describes the human beings. Linked Figures, 1949 was conceived early in Kenneth Armitage's career and marks the beginning of the distinctive groups of figures he produced in the 1950 s and in which he famously found a new language of expressive figuration. This early piece is comprised of two figures connected as one. From wherever one looks at these eternally welded figures one can sense two irreconcilable forces at work: the will to be one and the aspiration to individuate. By way of association one cannot but help recall Aristophanes' celebrated account of the origin of humans as recounted by Plato in his Symposium. The great writer of comedies claims that originally humans were immensely powerful globular creatures with four hands, four legs and two faces on a circular neck and comprised of three sexes. Zeus and the gods were in such awe of these humans that they had to be severed. The juxtaposition to Armitage's sculpture emphasizes the inherent tension in the piece and perhaps its sexual undertones too.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Sylph Editions
• Date d'édition: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0956509290
• ISBN 13: 9780956509291
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 32