Rihanna at Crop Over 2017, Barbados // Plate from Ernst Haeckel's 'Kunstformen der Natur' ('Artforms of nature'), 1904. From Judge Judy to the Kardashians, Banksy to Christian Grey, Michael Jackson to Barack Obama, the way in which the art world, book publishing, music & entertainment industries, and mass media present narratives to us follows any number of classical myths. It is here, in this space of imagination that we unfold our myths: timeless tales of virtue and vice, of criminal behavior and moral lessons that speak as a warning to the foolish or the unethically inclined, distilling the wisdom of the ages into a captivating story that won’t be forgotten easily.Ĭonrad delves into the myths of the present day, of the exalted and desecrated figures that impel our imaginations to new heights.
'Self Portrait' by Jacob Lawrence, at work in his studio, 1977 // Kanye, clad in a red Yeezy sweatshirt, launches his Yeezy Season 3 line /f6GrkBWX4H We therefore invent a creator who designed nature to serve us an allotted us a privileged place in it.”Īlexander McQueen menswear SS18 // Portrait of Lady Seymour Worsley (the Scandalous Lady W) by Sir Joshua Reynolds by c. “We dislike the idea that we happened into being accidentally in a universe that is a product of a random explosion. “Myths are the stories we tell ourselves to resolve the contradictions we find intolerable,” Peter Conrad writes in the opening chapter of his new book, Mythomania: Tales of Our Times from Apple to Isis (Thames & Hudson, September 12). The classical ideals of god, mortal, and beast have so completely subsumed our conscious (and even unconscious) minds that we simply follow the script. We do not need to look all the way back to mythologies of yore, to the heroic, monstrous, and villainous archetypes that have inspired great art, music, and literature in all cultures across time. Christopher Nolan) c.2017 // Egon Schiele, 'Self Portrait with Physalis' c.1912 /aBAmalss18 Nicolas Roeg c.1976 // Francis Bacon, 'Portrait of Michel Leiris', c.1976 /T6VIbgmT9B David Bowie in 'The Man Who Fell to Earth', Dir.
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