{"product_id":"9789042942028-the-weeping-rock-revisiting-niobe-through-paragone-pathosformel-and-petrification","title":"The Weeping Rock","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eRevisiting Niobe through 'Paragone', 'Pathosformel' and Petrification\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e      Publius Ovid (43 BC-17\/18 AD) describes in his \u003ci\u003eMetamorphoses\u003c\/i\u003e       Niobe’s transformation into a weeping rock. Niobe’s transformation       incorporates the form and matter of the medium of sculpture. According       to the humanist \u003ci\u003eparagone\u003c\/i\u003e debate, painting and sculpture struggle       to be the medium with the highest qualities of virtuosity. Aby Warburg       (1866-1929) refers to the Niobe motif’s \u003ci\u003eNachleben\u003c\/i\u003e in his \u003ci\u003eTafel       5: Beraubte Mutter. (Niobe, Flucht und Schrecken)\u003c\/i\u003e. This displays the       images of both the bereaved mother (Niobe) and the murderous mother       (Medea). The montage also introduces the theme of the descent to the       underworld. It becomes clear how the cluster of motifs around the figure       of Niobe - \u003ci\u003ehybris, lamentatio\u003c\/i\u003e and the chthonic substrate -       functions as a direct entry to a bipolar hermeneutics of the visual       medium: the ‘historical psychology of human expression’ that navigates       between Apollo and Dionysus. The 'weeping rock' that according to legend       still stands on Mount Sipylus in Turkey, draws upon deeper       anthropological patterns. Petrification indicates inertia, frigidity and       a Medusan psychosis of fear. In nature, stones and rocks have a       'slumbering insistence' that can be captivating. Stones are after all       visible but impenetrable, they index an irrevocable absence in their       presence, and ‘have abode’ in an otherworldly region of utter blindness       and silence. From a psychoanalytical perspective, Niobe’s petrifaction       symbolises the straitening of her life and the loss of anima within a       culture divorced from authentic feeling, nature, and instinct. Here       Niobe meets Echo.    \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55170217443702,"sku":"9789042942028","price":61.76,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_31459275.jpg?v=1737401617","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9789042942028-the-weeping-rock-revisiting-niobe-through-paragone-pathosformel-and-petrification","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}