Between classicism and modernity
My article entitled Between classicism and modernity. Whiteness, a cultural construction of the West, was published last December in the UNIVESITAS HUMANÍSTICA Journal, Nº 88, which, in the field of the humanities, is published periodically by the Javeriana University, in Bogotá, Colombia.
“From the inception of the Western culture, white color has been identified with light, being akin to each other. Therefore, white was identified with knowledge, God, primeval flare, and the first act of creation that equated whiteness to order and measure as opposed to the darkness of chaos. This paper provides a reflection on the persistence of the concept ‘white’ as a Western construct on the grounds of a perceptive prejudice that considers the disegno as essential before the chromatism, which is rooted in the Classicism and has remained almost intact up today. The perpetuation of this western aesthetic concept is examined to then conclude that, despite all the attempts to do a tabula rasa by the Modernity and the contemporary art, nothing has changed and it remains in force nowadays.
Under an analytical approach, this work uses documentary references, mostly written, together with some other filmic and artistic ones.”
I hope you like it.
Between classicism and modernity. Whiteness, a cultural construction of the West
UNIVESITAS HUMANÍSTICA Journal, Nº 88
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