Bernard Safran’s Medea

a tragic image of the American Dream

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Abstract

This article aims to analyze Bernard Safran’s Medeia painting (1964) from two perspectives: the first seeks to trace in Safran’s painting a dialogue with the cultural memory around the images of Medeia, and the second examines the interpretation that Safran’s version addresses a tragic side of the American Dream in relation to what Betty Friedan called “The Problem That Has No Name”.

Author Biography

  • Mateus Dagios (UFRGS), História pela Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul - UFRGS

    Doutor em História. Possui graduação em História - Licenciatura pela Universidade Federal do Rio Grande (2007), especialização em Estudos Clássicos pela Universidade de Brasília e Cátedra UNESCO Archai (2013), mestrado em História pela Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (2012) e doutorado em História pela Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (2019).

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Published

2021-05-04

Issue

Vol. 11 No. 2 (2020): Imagens: Arte, História e Cultura Visual

Section

Dossiê | Special Issue | Dossier

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