Art and the Nekyia : a study of the significance of the symbolic descent into Hades in art, myth and ritual

dc.contributor.author	Place, L B
dc.date.accessioned	2026-06-17T08:05:57Z
dc.date.issued	1975
dc.description.abstract	Art has very littlo to do with the dead. Death alone is the negation of creation, ,while art is a vital force, a deeply instinctive, everlasting, continual revitalisation. Art is life and nature and it lives in the realms of imagination, magic and mystery. Its language is the language of myth, and its aim is Truth. Art is action and reaction and is reached in silence by the artist alone and individually - its climate is solitude and its paths are as devious and labyrinthine as any the soul can follow in search of self-knowledge and the divine. Chap. 1, p. 1.
dc.description.degree	Master's thesis
dc.description.degree	MFA
dc.format.extent	53 pages
dc.format.mimetype	application/pdf
dc.identifier.other	http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1013039
dc.identifier.uri	https://researchrepository.ru.ac.za/handle/123456789/10998
dc.language	English
dc.publisher	Rhodes University, Faculty of Humanities, Department of Fine Art
dc.rights	Place, L. B.
dc.subject	Hell in art
dc.subject	Death in art
dc.subject	Death -- Psychological aspects
dc.subject	Hell in literature
dc.title	Art and the Nekyia : a study of the significance of the symbolic descent into Hades in art, myth and ritual
dc.type	Academic thesis

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