Narrative has broad domains. So it is related to the everything man faces in his daily life and also performed in various modes. Narrative is revealed through all media including a character, which is also applied to plastic art. And narrative objects...
Narrative has broad domains. So it is related to the everything man faces in his daily life and also performed in various modes. Narrative is revealed through all media including a character, which is also applied to plastic art. And narrative objects formed beyond the differences in media and forms of expression are commonly based on alanguage. The study on such object swhich created a new concept of narratology can be said to be a spiritual trend by which to understand the world and man from the viewpoint of a 'story'.
Plastic art took high interest in narrative in the same period as the rise of postmodernist art in the latter half of the 20th century, which was also applied to sculpture. The researcher, therefore, investigated through the history of sculpture in the 20th century the process in which narrative was denied under the value system of modernism and reappeared with the quickening of postmodernism. And as a result this period could be briefly characterized by 'return to figure' and 'reappearance of narrative'. That is, such flow means that late sculpture converted its center of interest from simple geometric abstract forms to irregular, figurative images.
The researcher chose as the subject of his study the works of George Segal and Louise Bourgeois, the two artists who were judged to have performed narrative positively and successfully among a great number of postmodernist sculptors who adopted it as their own strategy of expression. As the central artist of pop art, that can be said to be a quickening of postmodrnist sculpture, George Segal narrated what man was like as a social being particularly through the images of human body. On the one hand, Louise Bourgeois expressed human desire and condition as sexuality through the introspection of her own personal experience in contrast to the character of pop art sensitive to external world.
The researcher borrowed narrative semiotics as a method of analyzing more elaborately the problem about the generation of narrative shown in their works. Forit, he selected as the sample works for analysis Segal's <Holocaust> and Bourgeois's <Cell>, which were judged to contain narrative most abundantly. The former with the Auschwitz camp complex as a model filed a complaint against the social crime that justified the violence to a minority, whereas the latter as the metaphor of a gaze and recollection presented a new woman self that sublimed love, hatred, and loneliness. The narrative in the two types of works are characterized by outside-orientedness of questioning a society and introspection questioning one's own trauma, respectively. Each of them has independent domains and characteristics and clearly reveals narrative and content-centered characteristics, which are commonly discovered in postmodernist sculpture. The researcher could more concretely and definitely understand the characteristics of narrative through figurative images by analyzing these two types of sample works.
The researcher wanted to call your attention to the fact that the sculpture in the late 20th century contained narrative commonly and uniformly despite being characterized by various expressions and modes. And he focused on highlighting the fact that the narrative was more effectively revealed through figurative images of human body and simultaneously analyzing the formalizing process and structure for narrative. Besides he wanted to argue that the position of narrative defining the characteristics of sculpture should be valued more justly. Also, such acceptance of narrative, which is discovered in the sculpture, will have to be understood as the characteristics of the period reflecting the cultural aspect of the present time.