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Mythological elements in Ornament and Sacred Imagery in Ancient and Medieval Art of the Celts

Research Project

Project/Area Number 09610064
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)

Allocation TypeSingle-year Grants
Section一般
Research Field Fine art history
Research InstitutionRitsumeikan University

Principal Investigator

UEDA Takahiro (2000-2001)  Ritusmeikan University, College of Letters, Associated Professor, 文学部, 助教授 (80244979)

松尾 真由美 (鶴岡 真由美 / 松尾 真弓 / 鶴岡 真弓) (1997-1999)  立命館大学, 文学部, 教授 (80245000)

Project Period (FY) 1997 – 2000
Project Status Completed (Fiscal Year 2001)
Budget Amount *help
¥3,200,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,200,000)
Fiscal Year 2000: ¥500,000 (Direct Cost: ¥500,000)
Fiscal Year 1999: ¥500,000 (Direct Cost: ¥500,000)
Fiscal Year 1998: ¥800,000 (Direct Cost: ¥800,000)
Fiscal Year 1997: ¥1,400,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,400,000)
KeywordsCeltic ornament / abstract expression / ornamentation / anti-anthropomorphism / Gallo-roman coins / illuminated manuscripts / Abstraktion und Einfuhlung / vital changing and animation of forms / 文様 / 抽象性 / 反古典的 / 半三次元 / 平面性 / アラベスク / アール・ヌーヴォー / 渦巻文様 / ケルト文化 / ガロ=ローマ美術 / ケルト=イベリア / ケルト修道院文化 / ハルシュタット / ケルト美術 / ケルト考古学 / 島のケルト / 神像 / ガロンローマ / 神話 / ケルト民族 / 非・人像主義(アンチ・アンスロポモルフィズム) / ドルイド / ラ・テーヌ様式 / ガロ・ローマ時代 / アイルランド
Research Abstract

This research, with an introductory illustration of the history of the Celtic art in ancient and medieval times, proposes an analytical description and interpretation on the typical Celtic ornaments, in order to discuss on the Celtic visual communication which could be an aesthetic contribution to represent our vision about nature and life in abstract forms. Because the Celtic ornaments, especially seen in La Tene metal warks, the Gallo-roman coins and the illuminated manuscripts of the medieval Insular Art, are so unique in style that their forms significantly suggest the obsessive curiosity about the vital changing and animation of forms, which should fairly represents Celtic mythological and cosmological visions though the abstract character as W. Worringer proposed in Abstraktion und Einfuhlung (1908). In other words such Celtic type of art should be called Anti-Anthropomorphic art, contrary to the Greco-roman classical Anthropomorphic art or figurative type of art.
In this research, the analysis of Celtic abstract and ornamental forms resulted the more essential character in form of, so called, 'Shape-changing ambiguity' correspond with the Celtic mythological theme of 'Metamorphosis of beings'. Celtic art continued to evoke a dense, ever changing world. The artist showed the animate principles in nature, living on in the secret places of the imagination. Such Celtic style in art, through the main analysis of the style of icons and ornaments of Gallo-roman coins shows a key for recognition of the vision of life and nature kept by the people called Celts who built the basic stratum of European civilization. This also resulted an answer why such ornamental expressions had attracted not only art historians but also modern artists like Kandinsky, who inventively put ornament like motives into art of abstract painting by a method influenced by psychological and musicological thoughts starting from the early twentieth century against those of the ancient naturalism.

Report

(5 results)
  • 2001 Final Research Report Summary
  • 2000 Annual Research Report
  • 1999 Annual Research Report
  • 1998 Annual Research Report
  • 1997 Annual Research Report
  • Research Products

    (41 results)

All Other

All Publications (41 results)

  • [Publications] 鶴岡真弓(Mayumi Turuoka): "The Vision and Form of Celtic Ornament"System Research, Informatics and Cybernetic. the 14th International conference 2001(expected). (2002)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      2001 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] 鶴岡真弓: "ユーラシア文明交流--ケルトから視る"『イメージ表現 東西南北」和光大学. 26-41 (2002)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      2001 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] 上田高弘: "コスース以降 続・これから(も)描く/観るための断章"『美術フォーラム21』醍醐書房. 第2号. 59-62 (2000)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      2001 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] 上田高弘: "フリードからグリーンバーグへ---2001年、モダニズムの条件"「武蔵野美術」武蔵野美術大学. 第120号. 50-55 (2001)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      2001 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] 上田高弘: "絵画と社会"藤枝晃雄編「美術の理論」武蔵野美術大学. 139-156 (2002)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      2001 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] 鶴岡真弓: "ケルト美術"筑摩書房(ちくま学芸文庫). 258 (2000)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      2001 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] 鶴岡真弓: "装飾の神話学"河出書房新社. 258 (2000)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      2001 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] 鶴岡真弓, 松村一男: "ケルトの歴史"河出書房新社. 143 (1999)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      2001 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] マイヤー(鶴岡真弓 訳): "ケルト事典"創元社. 307 (2001)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      2001 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] ミーハン(鶴岡真弓 訳): "ケルズの書"創元社. 102 (2002)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      2001 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] Ueda, T.: "After-Kosuth:Fragments for Painting and Seeing"Part II, Art Forum21, No 2 Daigosyobo, Kyoto. 59-62 (2000)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
    • Related Report
      2001 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] Ueda, T.: "From Fried to Greenberg:2001, Modernist Condition"Musashino Art Bulletin, No.120, Musashino University of Art and Design, Tokyo. 50-55 (2001)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
    • Related Report
      2001 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] Ueda, T.: "Painting and Society"Theory of Art, Musashino University of Art and Design,Tokyo. 139-156 (2002)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
    • Related Report
      2001 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] Tsuruoka, M. et Matsumura, K.: "History of Celts"Kawadeshobo Publisher, Tokyo. (1999)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
    • Related Report
      2001 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] Tsuruoka, M.: "Mythology of Ornaments"Kawadeshobo Publisher, Tokyo. (2000)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
    • Related Report
      2001 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] Tsuruoka, M.: "Art of the Celts"Chikumashobo Pubisher, Tokyo. (2001)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
    • Related Report
      2001 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] Tsuruoka, M.: "Art and Culture in the Euracian Civilization, some influences on Celtic Art"Image and representation, Touzai-Nanboku, Wako University, Tokyo. (2002)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
    • Related Report
      2001 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] Tsuruoka, M.: "Art and Archaeology of the Celts"Powers of Ancient Kings in World Histories Kadokawa Publisher,Tokyo. (2003)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
    • Related Report
      2001 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] Tsnruoka, M. et Hirashima, N., (Supervised and Trans of Japanese edition: Maier, B.): "(Supervised and Trans.of Japanese edition; Maier, B., Lexikon der keltischen Religion und Kultur, Stuttgart, Kroner 1994)"Sohgensha Publisher, Osaka. (2001)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
    • Related Report
      2001 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] Tsuruoka, M.: "(Trans.; Meehan, B., The Book of Kells, London, 1994)"Sohgensha Publisher, Osaka. (2002)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
    • Related Report
      2001 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] 鶴岡真弓: "シングとアイルランド文芸復興"鉄幹と晶子. 第4号. 112-119 (1998)

    • Related Report
      1999 Annual Research Report
  • [Publications] 鶴岡真弓: "ジャック・B・イェイツとケルト文芸復興"(日本ケルト学者会議)ケルティック・フォーラム. 第2号. 33-40 (1997)

    • Related Report
      1999 Annual Research Report
  • [Publications] 鶴岡真弓: "ヨーロッパの非文字伝統-中世ケルト装飾文字の批判性"(立命館大学)言語文化研究所紀要. 9巻5・6合併号. 309-316 (1998)

    • Related Report
      1999 Annual Research Report
  • [Publications] 鶴岡真弓: "ケルト動物表現の恐怖と笑い"美術手帖. 7月号. 21-25 (1998)

    • Related Report
      1999 Annual Research Report
  • [Publications] 鶴岡真弓: "美術史とその言説"國学院雑誌. 100巻第1号. 15-54 (1999)

    • Related Report
      1999 Annual Research Report
  • [Publications] 鶴岡真弓: "オガム文字の力"言語. 3月. 2-3 (1999)

    • Related Report
      1999 Annual Research Report
  • [Publications] 鶴岡真弓・中川新一・月川和雄(共著): "ケルトの宗教 ドルイディズム"岩波書店. 377 (1997)

    • Related Report
      1999 Annual Research Report
  • [Publications] 鶴岡真弓(単著): "装飾美術・奇想のヨーロッパ-ケルトから日本へ"NHK出版. 186 (1998)

    • Related Report
      1999 Annual Research Report
  • [Publications] 鶴岡真弓・松村一男(共著): "ケルトの歴史-文化・美術・神話をよむ"河出書房新社. 143 (1999)

    • Related Report
      1999 Annual Research Report
  • [Publications] 鶴岡 真弓: "ケルト動物美術の恐怖と笑い" 美術手帖. 758号. 21-25 (1998)

    • Related Report
      1998 Annual Research Report
  • [Publications] 鶴岡 真弓: "芥川龍之介と愛蘭土" 正論. 10月号. 132-145 (1998)

    • Related Report
      1998 Annual Research Report
  • [Publications] 鶴岡 真弓: "アイルランドのケルト文芸復興" 鉄幹と晶子. 4号. 112-120 (1998)

    • Related Report
      1998 Annual Research Report
  • [Publications] 鶴岡 真弓: "ヨーロッパの「非文字」伝統-中世ケルト装飾文字の批判性-" 立命館大学国際言語文化研究所紀要. 9巻5・6合併号. 309-316 (1998)

    • Related Report
      1998 Annual Research Report
  • [Publications] 鶴岡 真弓: "Non-literate Experience of Transalpine World and the Early Medieval Art of Illuminated Mss." 立命館大学国際言語文化研究所紀要. 9巻5・6合併号. 353-362 (1998)

    • Related Report
      1998 Annual Research Report
  • [Publications] 鶴岡 真弓: "ケルト美術" 芸術新潮. 7月号. 3-83 (1998)

    • Related Report
      1998 Annual Research Report
  • [Publications] 鶴岡 真弓: "装飾美術・奇想のヨーロッパをゆく-ケルトから日本へ" NHK出版, 186 (1998)

    • Related Report
      1998 Annual Research Report
  • [Publications] 鶴岡真弓: "ジャック・B・イェイツとケルト文化復興" ケルティック・フォーラム. 第2号. 33-40 (1998)

    • Related Report
      1997 Annual Research Report
  • [Publications] 鶴岡真弓・中沢新一・月川和雄: "ケルトの宗教・ドルイディズム" 岩波書店, 376 (1997)

    • Related Report
      1997 Annual Research Report
  • [Publications] 鶴岡真弓: "ジョイスとケルト世界" 平凡社, 332 (1997)

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      1997 Annual Research Report
  • [Publications] 鶴岡真弓: "装飾する魂" 平凡社, 261 (1997)

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      1997 Annual Research Report
  • [Publications] 鶴岡真弓: "装飾美術・奇想のヨーロッパ-ケルトから日本へ-" NHK出版, 172 (1998)

    • Related Report
      1997 Annual Research Report

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