Dancing Tragedy

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1. Dancing Tragedy: Alexander McQueen’s Aesthetics of Spectacle 11th World Congress of Semiotics Germán Gil-Curiel Sino-British College
2. (2) Sources of Deliverance The Novel (1935) The Film (1969)
3. (3) Sydney Pollack’s Film They Shoot Horses, Don’t They?
4. (4) Dionysius (or Bacchus), a Greek ancient god, associated with wild & ecstatic rites
5. Apollo (5) A classical mythological god of light, associated with static qualities that encompass form, reason, sobriety, order and sereneness
6. (6) Dionysian Bacchanal (by Pablo Picasso)
7. (7) McQueen’s Collection Highland Rape (1997)
8. (8) Milos Forman One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975)
9. (9) Cinema & Fashion
10. (10) McQueen’s Collection Fall/Winter 2009
11. (11) Apollonian Bacchanal
12. (12) McQueen’s Deliverance Collection (2004)
13. (13) McQueen’s Deliverance Collection (2004)
14. (14) McQueen’s Deliverance Collection (2004) Sublime Gloria
15. (15) Peter Greenaway’s ‘Total Artwork’
16. (16) Gustav Klimt’s Paintings
17. Alexander McQueen (1969-2010) ‘May you live as long as you want to, and then pass smilingly into the darkness — the good, good darkness.’ (Ambrose Bierce)