Von megalithischen Kopfjägern, mittelalterlichen Kriegem, Charlton Heston und der Filmanalyse: Einflüsse einer prähistorischen Musik-Ethnologie im Schaffen Juan-Eduardo Cirlots

Abstract

Pivotal creations within the works of the Spanish poet and art critic Juan-Eduardo Cirlot, as, for example, La Dama de Vallcarca and Bronwyn attest to tendencies of a new mythicization of the commonplace by means of reinterpreting a Barcelona neighbourhood as a megalithic landscape and figures from Hollywood films as elements of cosmic myths. As this article will demonstrate, the foundations and the origins are based on, among other things, models and conclusions of studies in the first half of the 20th Century, in the fields of Ethnology and Prehistory. As Cirlot's drafts have shown, those models and conclusions were imported through comparative musicology.