The Body of Art

Corpus Mundi Pub Date : 2020-07-13 DOI:10.46539/cmj.v1i2.21
S. Waldrep
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As part of a larger study on the mainstreaming of pornography in contemporary film and television, this essay attempts to examine and extend our vocabulary for discussing visual representations of the human body by revisiting Kenneth Clark’s important study The Nude from 1972. Clark’s book provides a history of the male and female nude in two- and three-dimensional art from Ancient Egypt and Greece to the Renaissance and beyond. This essay focuses on places within his analysis that are especially generative for understanding pornography such as the importance of placing the nude form within a narrative (Venus is emerging from her bath, for example) or attempts by artists to suggest movement within static forms. The essay places Clark’s rich typology in conversation with other thinkers, such as Fredric Jameson, Erwin Panofsky, E. H. Gombrich, and Michel Foucault. The piece ends with a discussion of androgyny and hermaphroditism as they relate to the expression of gender in plastic art, especially the notion that all representations of the body necessarily include a gender spectrum within one figure. Artists whose work is looked at in some detail include Da Vinci, Michelangelo, and Donatello.
艺术的身体
作为当代电影和电视中色情主流化研究的一部分,本文试图通过回顾肯尼斯·克拉克1972年的重要研究《裸体》来检验和扩展我们讨论人体视觉表现的词汇。克拉克的书提供了从古埃及和希腊到文艺复兴及以后的二维和三维艺术中的男性和女性裸体的历史。这篇文章的重点是在他的分析中对理解色情作品特别有帮助的地方,比如在叙述中放置裸体形式的重要性(例如,维纳斯正在从浴室中出现),或者艺术家们在静态形式中暗示运动的尝试。这篇文章将克拉克丰富的类型学与其他思想家进行了对话,如弗雷德里克·詹姆逊、欧文·帕诺夫斯基、e·h·贡布里希和米歇尔·福柯。这篇文章最后讨论了雌雄同体和雌雄同体,因为它们与造型艺术中的性别表达有关,尤其是身体的所有表现都必须包括一个人物的性别光谱。人们对达芬奇、米开朗基罗和多纳泰罗等艺术家的作品进行了详细的研究。
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