{"id":2213,"date":"2025-05-28T18:36:34","date_gmt":"2025-05-28T18:36:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/joycefoundation.ch\/?page_id=2213"},"modified":"2025-06-12T09:56:13","modified_gmt":"2025-06-12T09:56:13","slug":"15-circe-by-aidan-hickey","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/joycefoundation.ch\/de\/james-joyce\/joyces-works\/james-joyces-ulysses\/ulysses-paintings-by-aidan-hickey\/15-circe-by-aidan-hickey\/","title":{"rendered":"15. Circe, by Aidan Hickey"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Part of Aidan Hickey’s Ulysses <\/em>series<\/a>, which was exhibited in Zurich, at the UB Law, as part of the exhibit “James Joyce, Ulysses, and the Law”<\/a> (April 15 to May 18, 2025).<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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“With a motley group \u2013 some living, some dead \u2013 Stephen and Bloom arrive in Nighttown. This huge episode has its own dramatic, three-act structure \u2013 hence the triptych. Since student days I wanted to paint a triptych in the manner of Max Beckmann. (That’s him in the tuxedo, top right, panel 3.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But the demands of Joyce\u2019s phantasmagoria were incompatible with the monumental dignity of Beckmann\u2019s figures. So, I turned to his contemporary, Otto Dix, whose nightmare visions are nicely in tune with Joyce’s Circe<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stephens final rejection of his Mother and the Church \u2013 inside the brothel and leaving it \u2013 is underpinned by real religious terror, which echoes the Hell of Hieronymus Bosch. Thus, Dix and Bosch became the main influences.”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Aidan Hickey<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Part of Aidan Hickey’s Ulysses series, which was exhibited in Zurich, at the UB Law, as part of the exhibit “James Joyce, Ulysses, and the Law” (April 15 to May 18, 2025). “With a motley group \u2013 some living, some dead \u2013 Stephen and Bloom arrive in Nighttown. This huge episode has its own dramatic, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":1752,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"wp-custom-template-one-column","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2213","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/joycefoundation.ch\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/joycefoundation.ch\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/joycefoundation.ch\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joycefoundation.ch\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joycefoundation.ch\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2213"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/joycefoundation.ch\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2213\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3077,"href":"https:\/\/joycefoundation.ch\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2213\/revisions\/3077"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joycefoundation.ch\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/joycefoundation.ch\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}