SEMIOTIC ANALYSIS OF ROLAND BARTHES 'MIT CONCEPT OF ANSELM KIEFER'S SERIES OF HERROIC SYMBOLS
ANSELM KIEFER`IN KAHRAMANLIK SEMBOLLERİ SERİSİ'NİN ROLAND BARTHES'İN MİT KAVRAMI ÜZERİNDEN GÖSTERGEBİLİMSEL ANALİZİ

Author : Dilek TÜRKMENOĞLU -- Gülru VARDAR
Number of pages : 14-28

Abstract

The series of German artist Anselm Kiefer's Heroic Symbols from 1969-1975 is considered to be one of the works which produced many paradoxes and interpretations on art history. The prominence of the series of works, the social trauma of Germany in 1933-1945 National Socialism II. In the process after World War II. Kiefer performed performances by giving Nazi Salam (Hitler Gruss), and produced photographs, photo conceptual books, and oil paintings on this history, which is the realities of Nazi Germany. Due to the historical tabula reminiscent of the audience, the social reception of these works has been very difficult and much discussed in the art circles. For this reason, it is aimed to solve the disorganized feelings caused by the works and the planes layered by the social effects with semiological method. The works have an uncomfortable content when read in the plain categorical categorization, but as Barthes pointed out, these references become indefinite in the mythic plane, and when typographical reading is deepened, cultural sentences indicate associations that are enriched by cultural sentiments.

Keywords

Art, semiotics, Roland Barthes, myth, performance.

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