The second issue in the series Room 5, Arcade features reflections on female urinals and edible architecture; a consideration of scatalogical elements in the work of Kurt Schwitters; an analysis of hypothermia as a primary death fantasy; interviews with Richard Rorty and Dan Graham; an exploration of Fragonard's gravity fantasies; essays and designs for museum architecture; and thoughts on Walter Benjamin, perspective, and the act of writing. Arcade is a collection of essays, discussions, architectural design and graphic projects that convene, as in an arcade, in their mutual attempt to escape the conditions in the street. Drawing together work that reflects the commitment of the London Consortium to multidisciplinary research, Room 5 recognizes the need to analyze modern culture in its social context, with input and output from the human sciences, cultural policy and cultural production.

Room 5: Arcade

Arts & Photography

Morris, Mark

Penner, Barbara

James, Catherine

Battista, Kathy

Clough, Robert

Gebbia, Pierandrea

Gooding, Francis

Holm, Lorens

Newton, Toby

Segal Weizman & Herz Architects

Tercier, John

Trifiro, Fabrizio

History & Criticism

The London Consortium

Richard Deacon: Association

Sculpture

Lisson Gallery

Painters have always drawn on the classics to find myths and symbols which will answer to contemporary problems. In Black Light, Francis Gooding examines four modern paintings in the light of ancient themes, and illuminates the permanence and power of the mythic imagination.   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

Black Light: Myth and Meaning in Modern Painting (Critical Quarterly Book Series)

Wiley/Blackwell

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