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Censoring the Body (Hardcover)
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"Manifestos For The Twenty-First Century" is a "Seagull" Series
created in collaboration with Index On Censorship, a home and a
voice for freedom of expression since it was founded in 1972. From
the earliest times human beings have found it difficult to
represent their own bodies in a straightforward way. At the dawn of
art, representations of the nude body focused almost entirely on
fertility, with some cultures explicit and others rather more
prudish about representing the unclothed body. With the coming of
Christianity, representations of the nude became associated with
the idea of the Fall of Man and original sin. This conflicted with
the need to show nude or nearly nude bodies when representing
episodes from the Passion of Christ and the martyrdoms of popular
saints. These tensions have been inherited in ever more complex
form by modern society. Today, representations of the nude remain a
battleground, fought over by libertarians and anti-libertarians.
Most recently, feminism has challenged images of the female nude,
while an increasing moral panic now restricts the depiction of the
naked child - images which would have been commonplace in the art
of the Renaissance. "Censoring the Body" exposes our bodies and our
ideas about our bodies, revealing the complex historical and
cultural legacies which frame - and obscure - our vision.
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