Gargoyles in today’s visual culture
Keywords:
gargoyle, Mass Media, visual experience, visual didactics
Abstract
The gargoyle has been inhabited since ancient times the cornices of religious and civil buildings, serving for water evacuation and other missions with different interpretations. His great symbolic component makes it an exciting claim for the current audiovisual time. Among the manifestations found, we will study the vision of the gargoyle in the media and will assess their suitability to the medieval vision. By the appearance of medieval gargoyle in present times in form of characters and ornaments, and through the application of current images to new gargoyles, we can perform a visual and symbolic journey around the different views that the current culture makes them. But we can’t stay there; it is necessary to relate these new insights and meanings to the original, to establish whether it has made proper use of the image or crushed primal symbol structure.Downloads
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2016-09-01
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Yáñez-Martínez B. (2016). Gargoyles in today’s visual culture. Arte, Individuo y Sociedad, 28(3), 553-565. https://doi.org/10.5209/rev_ARIS.2016.v28.n3.50832
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