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Castrenianumin toimitteita 58
Terhi-Maija Itkonen-Isakov
Muuttuva sankarimyytti 1800-luvun
unkarilaisissa maalauksissa
Castrenianumin toimitteita 58, Folia
Hungarica 10
Abstract: The Changing Myth of the
Hero in Nineteenth Century Hungarian Paintings
This work has analysed seven visual
texts on Hungarian heroes in the 19th century, and observed
the changes in the myth of the hero during this period.
Nineteenth century Hungarian culture has been reconstructed on
the basis of selected cultural text analyses, and the
conclusions are inductive, taking into account as many
different variables as possible. The intention has been to
select a representative sample of the researched material and
to develop an exact and repeatable method in order to ensure
reliable and comparable results.
A semiotical cube model was developed
for the method used. The model presumes that the terms in the
analysed text are complementary rather than opposites.
Saussure's meaning of langue and parole has been
integrated into the model. If langue is the global culture of
a certain time, then parole is a single part of it, a certain
local culture. The same thing can be interpreted as either
parole or langue, depending on the point of view. Moreover,
when a local culture functions as the langue, parole is part
of a certain production and when this production functions as
a langue, then the parole is a single text.
The hero theme in Hungarian paintings
continues literary tendencies, where national feelings after
the Revolution (forradalom) and during the War of
Independence (szabadságharc) were expressed through
personal emotions. Mainly because of literary suppression that
followed the defeated uprising, the visual arts took over
literature's role as a social leader, and a special langue of
Hungarian visual expression was developed. The tendency was to
create uniform national identity among Hungarians by using
historical examples. This was politically important in the
establishment of sovereign state of Hungary. |
