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Tacita Dean : Antigone / editors: Christine Buhl Andersen and Anna Manly.

Title
Tacita Dean : Antigone / editors: Christine Buhl Andersen and Anna Manly.
Author
Dean, Tacita, 1965-
Publication
  • [København] : Glyptoteket, [2019]
  • ©2019

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Description
48 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : many illustrations (chiefly color); 27 cm
Summary
"The focus of the exhibition is Tacita Dean's ambitious 35mm double Cinemascope film work Antigone, 2018, based on the name of the artist's older sister, references the Greek tragedian Sophocles's Antigone from 440 BCE. Over the ages, numerous philosophers, writers and artists have interpreted the character of Antigone as a brave and principled woman. Known as the woman who dared to speak truth to power, themes in her eponymous play recur frequently in various guises, especially in times of discord and authoritarian rule. Dean's Antigone is a personal, ambitious and stunningly beautiful work based on the gap between the other two plays in Sophocles's trilogy, Oedipus Rex and Oedipus at Colonus. At the end of Oedipus Rex, the blind and lame King Oedipus banishes himself from Thebes and is led by Antigone into the wilderness only to arrive much later at a grove outside Athens in Oedipus at Colonus. Dean invited Canadian poet Anne Carson to read her poem TV Men: Antigone (Scripts 1 and 2) repeatedly throughout the film, which she discovered was also inspired by the gap between the Sophoclean plays. She asked actor Stephen Dillane to 'dress up' as Oedipus."--Ny Carlsberg glyptotek's website.
Alternative Title
Antigone
Subject
  • Dean, Tacita, 1965-
  • Dean, Tacita, 1965- > Exhibitions
  • Film installations (Art)
  • Film installations (Art) > Exhibitions
  • Video installations (Art)
  • Video installations (Art) > Exhibitions
Genre/Form
Exhibition catalogs.
Note
  • In connection with an exhibition held at Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, København, November 22, 2019 - February, 23, 2020.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN
  • 9788774523697
  • 8774523694
LCCN
9788774523697
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries