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1/ Mimetic desire and the Art Market
In the movie “Titanic,” Kate Winslet plays the rebellious Rose DeWitt Bukater, a beautiful, vivacious, open-minded and forward-looking young woman from a “good” family that is faced with dwindling financial prospects. Her mother’s
In the movie “Titanic,” Kate Winslet plays the rebellious Rose DeWitt Bukater, a beautiful, vivacious, open-minded and forward-looking young woman from a “good” family that is faced with dwindling financial prospects. Her mother’s
2/ solution is to marry her off to the wicked and banal Cal Hockley, a mendacious but very rich young man. In the movie, Rose chooses to not marry Cal, but rather pursue a life of adventurous discovery, inspired by her brief love affair with penniless and doomed artist
3/ Jack Dawson. But this isn’t about what happened in the movie, other than to look at the intersection between Rose and the art she bought while abroad. She loaded up on Picasso, Monet and Degas, whom her philistine fiancé Cal said “wouldn’t amount to anything” in the world.
