AnÃlise mito simbÃlica da iconografia pirotÃcnica

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2005

RESUMO

Which images are more appealing than those of the celebrations that we hold along with our relatives? Among these memories, certainly are those of the feast of Saint John. The family meetings, the typical dishes, the crackling bonfire and children enchanted with the little stars that flow out of their hands. From these images, we have decided to enter into a nostalgic world, because fire and heat provide us with means of explanation in the most diversified areas, because it is, to us, the ocasion of enduring memories, simple and decisive personal experiences (BACHELARD 1991:11). In continuing the work done in the graduation monography (that resulted from the Graphic Design majoring at UFPE in 1998) about the iconography of fireworks packaging, we have found results that were interesting enough to stimulate our study about those fireworks packages in the symbolic field, the Imaginary. We have chosen Saint Johnâs feast as a representative field. In the first chapter, we show that fire, as a symbol, serves to multiple purposes. We have focused our attention on its various forms following the path of the myths and its relation with the feasts held in the month of June. In the second chapter we study the context of fireworks packaging, clarifying the concept of packaging and the importance of its visual language. Then we go through significant facts in the 50âs and 2000âs decades, when the packages chosen for analysis belong to. In the third and last chapter we analyze the images of the packages and we tell which results were found and their importance. We have decided to use as a method of analysis the mythcritics elaborated by Gilbert Durand (1983). Mythcritics is a method of criticism for literary texts, for style, for a collection of texts of a certain period or for a determined author that uncovers a mythical nucleus or a founding narrative and the myth(s) that works underneath. We believe that through the study here presented we have revealed not only the symbolic universe of the fireworks packaging, but also, the important interdisciplinary relation between Anthropology of Imaginary and Graphic Design

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embalagens imaginary fogos de artifÃcio imaginÃrio fireworks packaging fogo fire antropologia

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