新解体論 : 美術における「身体, 体, からだ, カラダ, KARADA」

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How has the human body been perceived in Art. Today this involves such issues as what constituts aesthetic objects, external perception such as vision and touch, emotion and consciousness, and psychological processes activated by physical experiences. In view of this circumstance the author, from the standpoint of a creater, has investigated into the problem of body perception that arises in thematizing the human body. This study provides a comparative re-analysis of body perception, with a particular emphasis on its relevance to Lacan's "mirror image", based on children's art, modern art, an atomic descriptions, and human body specimens in medical education. This interpretation, synthesizing individual growth, historical development of art, and natural sciences such as medicine and anatomy, raises questions not only for visual problems in art but also for our body perception and linguistic conception. Lacan points out that it is not that man is the center of the linguistic universe, but that man is created through language. What is important is not acquisition of pre-existing language and skills, but personal interpretation of external objects in relation to one's self. Therefore, this work, whose name might otherwise make one think of a guidebook for desertion of human bodies, intednds, in fact, to offer a new interpretation of one's body, and eventually, to reconstruct the subject of art as a whole.
1997-03-31