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A Study on the Mythological Image expressed Modern Fashion

현대패션에 나타난 신화적 이미지에 관한 연구

  • Yang Sook-Hi (Dept. of Clothing & Textiles, Sookmyung Women's University) ;
  • Yang Hee-young (Dept. of Clothing & Textiles, Sookmyung Women's University)
  • 양숙희 (숙명여자대학교 의류학과) ;
  • 양희영 (숙명여자대학교 의류학과)
  • Published : 2005.01.01
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Abstract

In the modern popular culture, a significant code is not the truth itself but the seeming truth. To fulfill this function, it is a mythology that has a transcendental power to eliminate any doubt and mystery. That is to say, cultural uniqueness is understood as an identical thing through mass communication, and people perceive it as a similar cultural community. In this process, mythology form and accumulate the matrix of mythological meaning by eliminating the difference between the reality and the illusion. Such a matrix forces a meaningless and unconditional truth and practice without any criticism and reconsideration. This paper tries to extract art and cultural characteristics of mythological image through examining the relationship among mythological image, history, and ideology. For this aim, we make use of Roland Barthes' signs and Daniel Boorstin's image as a basic analytical tool. After that we examine the characteristics of mythological image appeared in modern cultural discourses and the relationship between mythological image and modern popular culture. Furthermore, we consider the mythological image expressed in modern fashion, which has the nature of commodity aesthetics.

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