2014 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Jean Cocteau's Religion and Occultism: A Multiple Study Based on Text and Iconographic Analyses
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23652069
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research
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| Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
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| Research Field |
European literature (English literature excluded)
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| Research Institution | University of Fukui |
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| Project Period (FY) |
2011-04-28 – 2015-03-31
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| Keywords | コクトー / 教会美術 / 壁画 / 日記 / オカルト / 異端 / 図像解析 |
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
In the last decade of his life, Jean Cocteau, who was regarded as anti-Catholic, decorated four Roman Catholic chapels. The aim of this study is to better understand his ambiguous relationship to Catholicism through text and iconographic analyses of the enigmatic images painted on the walls of these chapels. It wasn't easy to understand exactly what they mean, but after careful consideration, we came to this conclusion: there is a possibility that Cocteau employed heterodox and occult symbolism in his supposedly Roman Catholic art, which demonstrates his ambivalence toward Catholicism.
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| Free Research Field |
フランス文学
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