This all sounds pretty accurate. I was writing to someone who works on
occasion with sexuality (more in writing, I think, than anything else) -
he wanted to discuss how it 'played out.' So I was thinking along prac-
tical lines. In the last 15 years or so just about everyone is dealing
with 'body' - most without any awareness of the history. But nudity in art
well predates Duchamp - look at Courbet's Origin of the World (think
that's the title) or Turner's drawings. I don't think even in performance
it has much to do with Duchamp; I think nudity was present in early film
as well as dance at the turn of the last century. - Alan
On Wed, 20 Sep 2006, Lucio Agra wrote:
After sending I'd also rememebered the concept of liminality proposed
by Victor Turner/Richard Scbhechner. Expose itself nude in western
societies tends to induce some states of perception analog to the
risks concerned to some rituals (like walking on fire, etc.)
Lucio
On 9/20/06, Lucio Agra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
There's a link uniting performance art, risk, presence and, of course
nudity. Not considering the fact that nudity, in various cases, do not
attract the issue of sexuality in performance, it is, however, one of
the most frequent procedures for it is at the core of any conception
of artistic research taking body as a "primary medium" (Semitotics of
Culture).
I've been considering that one of the hypothesis for the insistence on
nutidty in performance is the overall influence of Marcel Duchamp. His
"Nude descending the staircases" imposed a certain new notion about
nudity in art, proposing it as a continuous movement. One cannot
despise de role of this image in post-modern/contemporary art's
sensibility...
greetings
Lucio BR
On 9/19/06, Alan Sondheim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Probably not the first book; there are a lot of books on Gk & Roman stuff
> and I have one on Egyptian sexuality revealed in graffiti etc. But maybe
> I'm wrong. - Alan
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