"The Giants Against the Gods": the Dramatic and Plastic Explication of the Pergamon Alrar Contemplation of the Exhibit at the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts

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10.2991/icadce-15.2015.54How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Hellenism; Pergamon frieze; project (renovation); A. Alexander; artifact; Greek mythology; gods and giants; explication; installation; digital technology; stage version

Abstract

The research offers analysis of the project exhibit "The Giants Against The Gods" that presented interpretation of the reconstructed famous Hellenic monumental sculpture of the Pergamon altar by the contemporary German art photographer and artist A. Alexander. Under review are the author’s mythopoeic nature that links historicism with theatrical metaphor and the compositional and semantic match of the lost artifact fragments with the details restored by the project’s author in his light panel. Highlighted are the holistic view and the integrated and systemic approach to the particularities of the art masterpiece. The antiquity, Greek mythology and the contemporary plastic installation, as well as the performance art, being symphonized into a single artistic pattern, constitute the centerpiece of this scientific study.

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© 2015, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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