The Strange, Sordid History of the World's First Nude Female Statue | Artnet News
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The Strange, Sordid History of the World's First Nude Female Statue | Artnet News
Her existence, like her beauty and real worth, was intrinsically aesthetic, not physical or emotional. Veronica would be most comfortable, I remain convinced, as a human exhibit, motionless in the cool bright corner of a public hall, surrounded by a square of red velvet no-touch ropes, hearing only whispered voices and heels on tile.
from The Broom of the System: A Novel by David Foster Wallace
how do pursuit of beauty translate to being an object of beauty rather than the one perceiving?
- How we get from a goddess creating through birth to the (typically male) creative entrepreneurs on the covers of magazines is mainly a story about power. Slowly but surely, male gods climbed the creative ladder, first assisting goddesses in procreation, but eventually overtaking them, as people sought out forms of religious worship that more closel... See more
from A brief history of creativity (and power) by Elan Ullendorff
Erikc Perez-Perez added
Athenian sculpture and painting revered the human form, proudly displaying its naked magnificence and finding in its geometrical forms echoes of the fundamental harmonies of nature, tradition was thus begun that would climax in the Renaissance image of ‘Vitruvian Man’, the representation of the naked male figure inscribed at the centre of the cosmo
... See morefrom The Greatest Benefit to Mankind: A Medical History of Humanity (The Norton History of Science) by Roy Porter