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Last update: Mgr. Ondřej Váša, Ph.D. (29.07.2021)
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Last update: Mgr. Ondřej Váša, Ph.D. (04.10.2021)
GENERAL OVERVIEW (selected topics): - Introduction: Representing Human Body
SECTION I.: From Renaissance to William Hogarth - Between Plato and Ficino: philosophical origins of “figura serpentinata” - Between Michelangelo and Lomazzo: (de)erotizing bodies
SECTION II.: From William Hogarth to hygienic imperatives - Lomazzo’s influence on Hogarth - Movement and eroticism in Hogarth’s “The Analysis of Beauty” - Unexpected consequences of Hogarth’s mistakes: William Hogarth as the father of the “modern line” - Hygienic discourse of the 18th century: clean outlines of the healthy bodies - Art Nouveau and its implications: “figura serpentinata” runs wild
SECTION III.: 20th and 21th Century Aftermaths - “Cloud turn” in art: the demise of the line and the victory of the flesh - Uncomfortable bodies: architectural drawing imperatives - Fascist reactions: individual erotic wilderness vs. hollow social bodies - Figura serpentinata and the contemporary anatomical imagination: spirituality held in check - Between war and pornography: contemporary survivals of the renaissance concepts |
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Last update: Mgr. Ondřej Váša, Ph.D. (28.08.2020)
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Last update: Mgr. Ondřej Váša, Ph.D. (21.09.2020)
Selected Basic Literature: - CASSIRER, E.: The Logic of the Cultural Sciences. Five Studies. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2000. ISBN: 0-300-08114-6 - HESTER, H.: Beyond Explicit. Pornography and the Displacement of Sex. New York: SUNY Press, 2014, ISBN: 9781438449609. - HOGARTH, W. The Analysis of Beauty. Ilkley: Scolar Press, 1969. ISBN: 0-85417-523-7 - MAES, H. - LEVINSON, J.: Art and Pornography: philosophical essays. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012, ISBN: 0198744080 - MAURER, E.: Manierismus: figura serpentinata und andere Figurenideale des Manierismus. Studien, Essays, Berichte. Zürich: Neue Zürcher Zeitung, 2001, ISBN: 9783858237910 - WARBURG, A.: A Lecture on Serpent Ritual. Journal of the Warburg Institute, No. 4, 1939, pp. 277-292. ISSN: 09592024 - WIND, E.: Warburg’s Concept of Kulturwissenschaft and its Meaning for Aesthetics. In: PREZIOSI, D. (ed.). The Art of Art History. A Critical Anthology. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009, pp. 189-194. ISBN: 978-0-19-922984-0 - WOOD, CH. S., NAGEL, A.: Anachronic Renaissance. New York: Zone Books, 2010. ISBN: 978-1935408024
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