Bill Pusztai
Embodying the allusive muses, this quartet of classically composed nudes is a statement about statements, art about sex, soft-core porn about literature, and homage to one of the unsung heroes of culture and gender theory.
Sententia: a single, pithy statement of general wisdom.
Metaphor: compares two things by speaking of one in terms of the other.
Synecdoche: a metaphor in which the part stands for the whole.
Erotesis: a rhetorical question not explicitly answered because it is obvious what answer is expected.
paraphrased from:
A Handbook of Rhetorical Devices
by Robert A. HarrisNorthrop Frye proposed using the cardinal directions as an organising principle for thinking about cultural constructs and the myths we live by.
North: Logos, the intelligible world
East: Nous, the universal mind
South: Thanatos, death
West: Nomos, law or tradition.
for more info see:
Northrop Frye’s Writings On the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
by Northrop Frye, Imre Salusinszky, and Robert D. Denham
Bill Pusztai, © 2008
South: Synechdoche
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Bill Pusztai, © 2008
North: Sententia
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24 x 18 in. framed
Bill Pusztai, © 2008
East: Metaphor
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24 x 18 in. framed
Bill Pusztai, © 2008
West: Erotesis
Piezographic on archival paper
24 x 18 in. framed