The costumes of an archaic dream: Pasolini, Danilo Donati and Oedipus the King (1967)
2024; Intellect; Linguagem: Inglês
10.1386/jicms_00257_7
ISSN2047-7376
Autores Tópico(s)Art, Politics, and Modernism
ResumoThis article examines the collaboration between Pier Paolo Pasolini and Danilo Donati. Pasolini wanted the aesthetic of Oedipus the King to evoke an ‘indistinct barbaric’ feel and asked the great costume designer Danilo Donati for a mélange of Persian, Sumerian, Aztec and African art. Pasolini sought the shapes, the drawings and the sculptures of an archaic civilization, but mixed together, adhering to the Pasolinian method of contamination, so that they would lose their original identity in a new form that at the same time recalled ancient cultures or, in the case of the African art, even tribal history.
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