Gianni, IlariaLinford, SarahContini, Leonardo2024-05-292024-05-292022Contini, Leonardo. "The Tragic and the Heroic in the Art of Musič, Baselitz and Mitoraj". BA Thesis, John Cabot University, Rome, Italy. 2022.https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14490/42Thesis (B.A. in Art History)--John Cabot University, Spring 2022.Tragedy and heroism emerge systematically across the artistic productions of Musič, Baselitz and Mitoraj, establishing as characterizing thematic aspects which regard their individual productions in their integrity. Such union of tragedy and heroism should be seen as the product and reflection of the 20th century society in which the three artists live and operate. Common personal and national traumatic instances, linked with the Second World War and its aftermath, tie the three artists together, resulting in great affinities between them both on conceptual and formal aspects: such as the reference to the classical statue of the Apoxyómenos, the use of nudity and the reliance on memory. This thesis intends to analyze precisely how the union of tragic and heroic plays out in the work of Musič, Baselitz and Mitoraj and investigate how this union relates to their personal experiences. Finally the focus of the research is to identify where the matrix of their artistic poetics ideologically originates from: whether it resides in a postmodernist or in a hermeneutic framework. In doing so we will focus on specific instances from the production of Musič, Baselitz and Mitoraj, acknowledging both the formal and conceptual aspects of their creations to understand how they convey the union of tragedy and heroism. Wider artistic, philosophical and socio-historical perspectives on the overall matter of discussion will be strongly considered, to eventually enable us to argue over the subtle prominence of a hermeneutic attitude of their work. A tendency rooted in and demonstrated by the strong reliance on personal and social memory the three artists express in their creations, as well as by the constant dialogue and exchange they entertain with history and the history of art.vii, 117 pagesenAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internationalhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/Georg Baselitz, 1938-Zoran Antonio Music, 1909-2005Igor Mitoraj, 1944-2014Thesis