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The King of the Brobdingnag is wise and kind-hearted compares with the king of Lilliput. | The King of the Brobdingnag is wise and kind-hearted compares with the king of Lilliput. | ||
==Awareness== | ==Awareness== | ||
==References== | ==References== | ||
01.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N%C3%BCwa#Creator | 01.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N%C3%BCwa#Creator | ||
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Lilliput & Brobdingnag(Draft)
Definition
Little people and Giants here mean all the human figure which is in an obvious abnormal scale(either smaller or bigger than normal human beings), appearing in all different media types or art forms. And their outlooking is only different in size compared with human being, there is no malformation concluded.
Trace Back
- Creation
There are many mythologies telling the beginning of human beings, and it usually uses the same model——after creating the world, the deity wants to make some creature which looks like him/her.Then he/she starts collecting materials( earth, air, water or other elements) to generate human beings.
- Lilliput
"Little people" have been part of the folklore of many cultures in human history, including Ireland, Greece, the Philippines, the Hawaiian Islands, Flores Island, Indonesia, China, Japan ,Native Americans and so on.
- Brobdingnag
"Giant" appears more in mythologies and legends which presents power, wild and primeval.
Multiple Media
- Literature
Jonathan Swift <Gulliver’s Travels>
Kathleen Mary Norton <The Borrowers>
Antoine de Saint-Ecupery <The Little Prince>
- Animation
Hiromasa Yonebayashi <The Borrower Arrietty>
Shigeru Tamura <Glassy Ocean> <A Piece Of Phantasmagoria>
- Painting
Odilon Redon <The Cyclops>, 1898
- Sculpture
Ron Mueck
Zarko Baseski
- Real Life
Giganitism
Ironics
<Gulliver's Travels>
- lilliputians:
15 centimetres tall（in average)
Criminals must be punished, but people of good character must be rewarded.
Honest, truthful and good is the most important character for a lilliputian.
"Choosing officials because they are able to dance on a rope"--human nature is the same in every country.
The two political groups : the High-Heels and the Low-Heels. (The way to distinguish these two groups is from which end people break the egg, larger one or smaller.)
Being jealous and feeling threatened by Gulliver( Secret enemy Flimnap)
Hypocrisy( Gulliver's friend Reldresal)
- Brobdingnag
The dwarf in Brobdingnag is 10 metres high.(He hates Guilliver so much since Gulliver is smaller than him. )
"because to them I was only an unimportant little creature.Irealized later that this often happens in England,when we laugh at someone of no family,fortune,or intelligence,who pretends to be as important as our great leaders."
The King of the Brobdingnag is wise and kind-hearted compares with the king of Lilliput.
Awareness
References
01.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N%C3%BCwa#Creator
02.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Issun-b%C5%8Dshi
03.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madame_d%27Aulnoy
04.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Propp
05.Max Lüthi The Fairytale as Art Form and Portrait of Man
06.陳正治 童話寫作研究
07.Roman Jakobson and Petr Bogatyrev FOLKLORE AS A SPECIAL FORM OF CREATION
08.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_people_(mythology)
09.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koro-pok-guru
10.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classic_of_Mountains_and_Seas (靖人）
11.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giant_(mythology)
12.The Progress Big Man A Conversation with Ron Mueck by Sarah Tanguy
http://www.sculpture.org/documents/scmag03/jul_aug03/mueck/mueck.shtml
13.ATHLETIC MEASURES: VIEWING AND ENGAGEMENT ON A HUMAN SCALE http://www.glyphpdx.com/athletic-measures-viewing-engagement-human-scale/
14.Use Your Illusion http://www.artnews.com/2012/04/19/use-your-illusion/