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Citings & Sightings of Dante's Works in Contemporary and Popular Culture

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The Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision

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"Inside the building that tranquillity gives way to a comic-book version of Dante's Divine Comedy, with strict divisions between various worlds. Visitors enter via an internal bridge that crosses over an underground atrium. From here, a vast hall conceived on the scale of a piazza leads to a cafeteria overlooking the calm surface of a reflecting pool. On one side of the hall looms the ziggurat form of the museum; on the other, a wall of glass-enclosed offices. Here the spectral glow of the interior of the cast-glass skin evokes the stained-glass windows of a medieval cathedral."

Nicolai Ouroussoff, "Heaven, Hell and Purgatory, Encased in Glass"
The New York Times, May 26, 2007
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/26/arts/design/26visi.html

Contributed by Darren Fishell (Bowdoin, '09)

Posted on May 26, 2007

"The Fall of the Damned" lampshade by Luc Merx of Gadget International

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"Dutch architect Luc Merx's lampshade is an algorithmic mass of writhing nudes that recalls the classical motif of the fall of the damned. He imagines the lamp hanging above a dining table, the shock of the frozen, terrified bodies disturbing diners with age-old questions of guilt and morality, issues usually kept behind closed doors." (Chistian Holl + Luc Merx)
http://kostasvoyatzis.wordpress.com/2007/04/19/the-damned-lampshade/

Posted on April 26, 2007

Kozik's Inferno

http://www.wildbrain.com/tv.html

"Kozik's Inferno" is a twelve-episode animated version by Frank Kozik, a rock n' roll poster artist in San Francisco. It was featured as an internet cartoon in 2000. (Produced by W!ldbrain, Inc.)

Contributed by George Evelyn

Posted on February 14, 2007

Rafael Kayanan's illustrations of the "Divine Comedy"

http://members.aol.com/kayanancomicart/

Posted on January 25, 2007

Kevin J. Gross, "Dante's Vision"

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a Mandelbrot Set fractal

http://www.goshen.edu/~kevin/early/early.html

Posted on January 24, 2007

Sandow Birk's illustrations of the "Divine Comedy"

http://www.sandowbirk.com/index.html
http://www.cclarkgallery.com/dynamic/artist.asp?ArtistID=9&Count=0

Posted on January 24, 2007

"Inferno & Paradiso" a photojournalistic exhibit in South Africa (2001)

Curated by Alfredo Jaar

"World renowned artist/photographer Alfredo Jaar curated this show which is presented as a collaboration between the SANG, the BildMuseet in Umea, Sweden, and Riksutstallningar, the Swedish Travelling Exhibitions Organisation. His curatorial method was this: 'I invited 18 photojournalists from around the world to contribute two images to the exhibition (inspired by Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy). For 'Inferno' I asked them to select the single image that was the most difficult to produce, the one that caused the most pain and anguish. And for 'Paradiso', the most joyful one, the one that has given them the most happiness in the world.' "
--Sue Williamson
http://www.artthrob.co.za/01june/reviews.html
http://www.amazon.com/Inferno-Paradiso-Alfredo-Jaar/dp/9170570450/sr=8-7/qid=1166670595/ref=sr_1_7/104-7728532-8483908?ie=UTF8&s=books

Contributed by Charlie Russell (Bowdoin, '08)

Posted on December 21, 2006

Chris Sullivan, "Dante's Divine Comedy" (2006)

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Posted on December 18, 2006

Anna Booth, "Inf. XXVI" (2006)

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Posted on December 18, 2006

Jennifer Strange, "Inspired by Dante: An Artist's Journey Through The Divine Comedy"

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http://inspiredbydante.home.att.net/

Contributed by Jennifer Strange

Posted on November 30, 2006

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This experimental website, inspired by students of Arielle Saiber’s “Dante’s Divine Comedy” course, has been built to archive occurrences of Dante and his works in popular and contemporary culture of the twentieth century and beyond. The site catalogs a wide range of Dante "sightings": from the cursory to the extensive, and from a place of superficial knowledge of Dante and his works to deep familiarity with them. We leave the readers the opportunity to judge the nature of each citing, and note the frequency of certain themes over others. The goals are twofold: 1) to provide a central access point for said references; and 2) to offer data that students and scholars of Dante can use to think about the Nachleben (“afterlife”) of Dante’s works in relation of reception theory, resonance, and cultural studies.