Aspectos de magia, mito y conmemoración en la estatuaria-imaginería primitiva e incidencias en el arte contemporáneoAproximación a referencias iconográficas del País Vasco

Abstract

Both the myth as focal point of thought derived from magical sources, such as the remembrance of what once existed and ceased to exist (Rosalind Krauss), have been two of the most important driving forces that have propelled peoples and early civilizations towards a cultural embodiments in various media, especially stone, with the aim of trying to symbolically bring that presence that can hardly be named by words or language to use. Aware that these efforts to consider the setting up of objects of material culture and may be the less risky artistic products, we can’t ignore its monumental character and iconography significant. Many of these testimonies are often inherited by contemporary artistic practice, sometimes bringing it up essentially from a modern spirit; which has resulted in the aesthetic background underlying geo-cultural areas such as the Basque Country and other examples