Medea1.0183_Paolozzi

Medea1.0183_Paolozzi

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OGCMA s.v. "Medea"
Classical Sources:
Hesiod Theogony, 956ff.
Pindar, Pyth. 4.9ff.
Herodotus, 8.62
Euripides, Medea, passim
Euripides, Peleiades, fragments
Ap. Rhod., Argo., 3 and 4
Ennius, Medea Exul
Accius, Medea
Diodorus Siculus, Bibl. 4.48-52, 54-55
Ovid Heroides, 6 and 12
Ovid Met. 7.1-400
Apollodorus Libr. 1.9.23-28; Epit. 5.5
Seneca, Medea
Pausanias, 2.3.6-11, 2.12.1, 5.18.3, 8.9.1-3, 8.11.2
Hyginus Fab. 25-27
Lucian, Dialogues of the Dead, 9 "Menippus and Tiresias"

Eduardo Paolozzi (1924-2005), "Medea," 1964, abstract welded aluminum sculpture, Rijksmuseum Kröller-Müller, Otterlo, The Netherlands

ML p. 631: "The machine parts (standing 81 inches high) threateningly imply the destructive power of the barbarian princess. The mythological title suggests an allegorial meaning for the work without precise narrative content. Paolozzi's use of mechanical parts can also be interpreted as a satire on the modern age of machines."
Biographical information on Sir Eduardo Luigi Paolozzi at Tate Britian's website.

Metal sculpture of an abstract accordion-like creature with pipe-like legs, set on concrete against a forest background

J.J. Claus & S.I. Johnson, Medea: essays on Medea in myth, literature, philosophy, and art (Princeton 1997), 5: "Particularly compelling ... constructed of angular machine parts and resting atop writhing bronze tubes. Simultaneously, P. presents us with the cold, inhuman precision of an automaton and earthy, female passion."

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