Virgin Lady Our Mother Paradoxal

Authors

  • Paola Basso Menna Barreto Gomes Zordan Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5380/his.v65i2.47241

Keywords:

Virgin Mary, figure, feminin, intussusception

Abstract

Female figures like the Virgin Mary presentes mythological and iconical aspects appropriate to think as woman’s prospect, in sense and sight. Figure characteristics are treated with Barthes to intent make a brief criticism with invaginations and genital thought of Gilles Deleuze. With semiological mythology addresses the popularization of her devotion workship that comes from the late nineteenth century to for display poetic and critical creations through some samples from image paradoxes. The goal is demonstrate how to build a way of thinking the feminine which asserts itself for problematize the different series of sense that converge in the Our Lady figure. The images in evidence this text generate syncretic productions, where the relationship between sacred and sexual signs are blended, showing sense of paradoxes in the marian cult.

Author Biography

Paola Basso Menna Barreto Gomes Zordan, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul

Doutora e Mestre em Educação, Bacharel em Desenho e Licenciada em Educação Artística pela Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul. Professora do Departamento de Artes Visuais da Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, pesquisa historiografia e epistemologia das artes. Na mesma instituição é professora do Programa de Pós-graduação em Educação  na linha de pesquisa Filosofias da Diferença.

Published

2017-09-22

How to Cite

Zordan, P. B. M. B. G. (2017). Virgin Lady Our Mother Paradoxal. História: Questões E Debates, 65(2), 239–263. https://doi.org/10.5380/his.v65i2.47241