Smets, Simon;
(2023)
Looking at Latin 1911-1965-2019 : Modern Art and an Ancient Language.
Latin's Material Presences
, 8
pp. 103-37.
10.21825/jolcel.84802.
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Abstract
This article considers the presence of Latin in art from the beginning of the twentieth century until today. It analyses works by Giorgio de Chirico, Max Ernst, Joseph Kosuth, Giulio Paolini, Rosemarie Trockel, Ian Hamilton Finlay and William Kentridge, and compares their engagement with the Latin language. The article is structured according to the different ways in which these artists unsettle the status of Latin, be it through semantic confusion, material recontextualisation or textual destabilising.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Looking at Latin 1911-1965-2019 : Modern Art and an Ancient Language |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.21825/jolcel.84802 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.21825/jolcel.84802 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © The Author 2023. Original content in this paper is licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) Licence (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
| Keywords: | Giorgio de Chirico, Max Ernst, Joseph Kosuth, Ian Hamilton Finlay, William Kentridge, Latin, Textual art, Classical reception, Renaissance, Rosemarie Trockel, Conceptual Art, Concrete poetry, Erasmus, Nietzsche, metaphysical art, Wittgenstein, Giulio Paolini, Vergil |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences > Inst for Risk and Disaster Reduction |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10173840 |
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